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INDEX-CONTENTS. 


STATE  LAWS. 


Year  of 
Enactment. 

CHAPTER 

1189. 

1904. 

CHAPTER 

974. 

1891. 

ACT. 

1872. 

CHAPTER 

725. 

1888. 

CHAPTER 

1242. 

1892. 

CHAPTER 

497. 

1897. 

CHAPTER 

1498. 

1907. 

CHAPTER 

1631. 

1908. 

CHAPTER 

747. 

1911. 

CHAPTER 

748. 

1911. 

CHAPTER 

357. 

1860. 

CHAPTER 

392. 

1862. 

RESOLUTION. 

1864. 

CHAPTER 

558. 

1865. 

CHAPTER 

485. 

1875. 

CHAPTER 

484. 

1909. 

^HAPTER 

746. 

1911. 

> CHAPTER 

349. 

1883. 

CHAPTER 

512. 

1897. 

3 CHAPTER 

3 

1387. 

1906. 

J 

CHAPTER 

461. 

1863. 

i CHAPTER 

884. 

1901. 

Page. 


Advertising  55 

Ballots,  printing  and  distributing 34 

Bonds  21 

Bonds  33 

Bonds  35 

Bonds  44 

Bonds  59 

Bonds  60 

Bonds  96 

Bonds  98 

Boundary  of  State,  eastern 9 

Boundary  of  State,  eastern 10 

Boundary  of  State,  western,  and  between  East 

Providence  and  Pawtucket. 13 

Boundary  of  State,  western,  and  between  East 

Providence  and  Pawtucket 13 

Boundary  line  between  East  Providence  and 

Barrington  22 

Building  act 62 

Caucus  act  87 

Clearing  channel  in  Seekonk  river  and  con- 
struction of  bridge  on  site  of  Providence- 

Washington  bridge 27 

Debt  limit  not  to  exceed  four  and  one-half  per 

cent 46 

Debt  limit  not  to  exceed  five  and  one-half  per 

cent 58 

Election  of  Representatives  to  Congress 12 

Election  of  town  officers,  date  of 47 


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Page. 

CHAPTER  600.  1866.  Harbor  line  15 

CHAPTER  718.  1868.  Harbor  line  16 

CHAPTER  759.  1879.  Harbor  line  24 

CHAPTER  886.  1901.  Inspector  of  Plumbing  and  Drainage 48 

CHAPTER  610.  1910.  Inspector  of  Plumbing  and  Drainage 85 

CHAPTER  593.  1886.  Main  drains  and  common  sewers 29 

CHAPTER  805.  1889.  Main  drains  and  common  sewers 32 

CHAPTER  1204.  1904.  Metropolitan  Park  Commissioners 56 

CHAPTER  1238.  1905.  Metropolitan  Park  Commissioners 56 

CHAPTER  1466.  1907.  Metropolitan  Park  Commissioners 58 

CHAPTER  410.  1909.  Metropolitan  Park  Commissioners 62 

CHAPTER  569.  1910.  Metropolitan  Park  Commissioners 85 

CHAPTER  485.  1909.  Passenger  station  over  Boston  street 82 

CHAPTER  749.  1911.  Plats  of  private  lands 100 

CHAPTER  1275.  1905.  • Permanent  police  force 57 

CHAPTER  1178.  1904.  Pollution  of  sources  of  water  supply 53 

CHAPTER  1332.  1894.  Red  Bridge  act 36 

CHAPTER  391.  1862.  Regulating  suits  at  law,  quieting  possession 

and  establishing  titles  to  land 9 

CHAPTER  640.  1910.  Representative  districts  87 

CHAPTER  472.  1885.  School  committee  to  consist  of  five  members..  29 

CHAPTER  593.  1886.  Sewers  29 

CHAPTER  805.  1889.  Sewers,  amendment  32 

CHAPTER  1135.  1903.  Sidewalks 62 

CHAPTER  486.  1909.  Sidewalks  83 

CHAPTER  586.  1910.  State  Harbor  Improvement  Commission 85 

CHAPTER  1108.’  1892.  Tax  authorized 35 

CHAPTER  389.  1896.  Tax  authorized 43 

CHAPTER  527.  1898.  Tax  authorized 46 

CHAPTER  693.  1899.  Tax  authorized  46 

CHAPTER  732.  1900.  Tax  authorized 46 

CHAPTER  885.  1901.  Tax  authorized  48 

CHAPTER  338.  1896.  Tax  Assessors  to  hold  office  for  three  years 42 

CHAPTER  437.  1875.  Town  Council  to  consist  of  five  members 22 

CHAPTER  1497.  1907.  Town  Council  to  fill  vacancies  in  town  offices. . 59 

CHAPTER  964.  1872.  Town  Council,  powers  of 20 


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Page. 

CHAPTER  637.  1877.  Town  meeting,  date  of  annual 23 

CHAPTER  762.  1879.  Town  meeting,  date  of  annual 23 

CHAPTER  1026.  1902.  Town  meeting,  date  of  annual,  and  officers  to 

hold  to  when 49 

CHAPTER  386.  1896.  Validating  exemption  of  Grosvenordale  Com- 
pany from  taxation 40 

CHAPTER  387.  1896.  Validating  exemption  of  American  Electrical 

Works  from  taxation 41 

COMMUNICATION.  1862.  Valuation  of  East  Providence  and  Pawtucket 

with  report  of  commissioners 10 

CHAPTER  417.  1862.  Valuation  of  property  formerly  under  the  juris- 
diction of  Massachusetts 10 

CHAPTER  885.  1870.  Voting  districts,  town  divided  into 17 

CHAPTER  381.  1883.  Voting  districts,  town  divided  into 27 

CHAPTER  496.  1897.  Voting  districts,  town  divided  into 43 

CHAPTER  1124.  1903.  Voting  districts,  town  divided  into 50 

TOWN  ORDINANCES. 

CHAPTER  35.  Advertising,  outdoor  182 

CHAPTER  6.  Bathing  135 

CHAPTER  34.  Bicycles  180 

CHAPTER  7.  Boilers,  steam  135 

CHAPTER  15.  Bounds  and  sign  boards 145 

CHAPTER  31.  Carrying  and  dumping  contents  of  privy  vaults,  cesspools 

and  other  offensive  matter 176 

CHAPTER  14.  Cattle  145 

CHAPTER  27.  Cattle,  sheep,  goats,  horses,  swine  and  fowls 169 

CHAPTER  31.  Cesspools,  carrying  and  dumping  contents  of 176 

CHAPTER  5.  Compact  part  of  town 134 

CHAPTER  21.  Constables,  police  and  special 152 

CHAPTER  28.  Contagious  diseases 170 

CHAPTER  16.  Curbing  146 

CHAPTER  3.  Drainage  and  plumbing 108 

CHAPTER  13.  Drunkenness  144 

CHAPTER  12.  Drunkenness  and  revelling 144 

CHAPTER  25.  Electricity  wires  for  conducting 164 


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CHAPTER  26.  Electric  light,  heat  and  power  wires 16G 

CHAPTER  9.  Explosives,  high  137 

CHAPTER  22.  Fire  department  153 

CHAPTER  17.  Fowls  14G 

CHAPTER  27.  Fowls,  sheep,  goats,  cattle,  horses  and  swine 169 

CHAPTER  30.  Garbage  and  swill 173 

CHAPTER  27.  Goats,  sheep,  cattle,  horses,  swine  and  fowls 169 

CHAPTER  8.  Gunpowder  136 

CHAPTER  23.  Hawkers  and  peddlers 156 

CHAPTER  9.  High  explosives 137 

CHAPTER  2.  Highways  106 

CHAPTER  27.  Horses,  sheep,  goats,  cattle,  swine  and  fowls 169 

CHAPTER  24.  Junk  dealers 159 

CHAPTER  10.  Kerosene  oil,  etc 141 

CHAPTER  11.  Malicious  injury  143 

CHAPTER  4.  Nuisances  128 

CHAPTER  31.  Offensive  matter,  carrying  and  dumping 176 

CHAPTER  36.  Ordinances  188 

CHAPTER  35.  Outdoor  advertising 182 

CHAPTER  23.  Peddlers  and  hawkers 156 

CHAPTER  20.  Permanent  police  force 147 

CHAPTER  10.  Petroleum  oil,  etc 141 

CHAPTER  19.  Places  of  trade 147 

CHAPTER  3.  Plumbing  and  drainage 108 

CHAPTER  21.  Police  and  special  constables 152 

CHAPTER  31.  Privy  vaults,  carrying  and  dumping  contents  of 176 

CHAPTER  12.  Revelling  and  drunkenness 144 

CHAPTER  29.  School  children,  vaccination  of 172 

CHAPTER  32.  Sewer  Commissioners 179 

CHAPTER  27.  Sheep,  swine,  goats,  cattle,  horses  and  fowls 169 

CHAPTER  1.  Sidewalks  103 

CHAPTER  15.  Sign  boards  and  bounds 145 

CHAPTER  21.  Special  constables  152 

CHAPTER  7.  Steam  boilers  135 

CHAPTER  30.  Swill  and  garbage 173 

CHAPTER  18.  Swine  146 


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Page. 

CHAPTER  27.  Swine,  sheep,  goats,  cattle,  horses  and  fowls 169 

CHAPTER  19.  Trade,  places  of 147 

CHAPTER  33.  Union  Railroad  Company 180 

CHAPTER  29.  Vaccination  of  school  children 172 

CHAPTER  25.  Wires  for  conducting  electricity 164 

CHAPTER  26.  Wires  for  light,  heat  and  power 166 

COUNCIL  ORDERS. 

Representative  districts,  division  of  town  into 195 

Sidewalks,  building,  altering  and  amending 197 

POLICE  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS. 

General  rules  205 

Chief  of  Police 208 

Patrolmen  209 


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■ CHAPTER  357. 

Passed  January  25,  1860. 

AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  AN  ACT  PASSED  AT  THE 
JANUARY  SESSION,  A.  D.  i860,  ENTITLED  “AN  ACT 
FOR  AN  ADJUSTMENT  OF  THE  EASTERN  BOUNDARY 
OF  THIS  STATE,  AND  FOR  A BOUNDARY  OF  AGREE- 
* MENT.” 


CHAPTER  391. 

Passed  January  Session,  1862. 

AN  ACT  REGULATING  SUITS  AT  LAW,  AND  QUIETING 
POSSESSIONS,  AND  ESTABLISHING  TITLES  OF  LAND 
AND  PROPERTY,  AFFECTED  BY  THE  ESTABLISH- 
MENT OF  THE  BOUNDARY  LINE  BETWEEN  THE 
STATES  OF  RHODE  ISLAND  AND  MASSACHUSETTS, 
AND  FOR  OTHER  PURPOSES, 


IO 


ACTS  OE  THE)  GENERAL  assembly 


CHAPTER  392. 

Passed  January  Session,  1862. 

AN  ACT  IN  ADDITION  TO,  AND  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  “AN 
ACT  IN  ADDITION  TO  AN  ACT  PROVIDING  FOR  AN 
ADJUSTMENT  OF  THE  EASTERN  BOUNDARY  OF  THIS 
STATE,  AND  FOR  A BOUNDARY  BY  AGREEMENT,  AND 
TO  THE  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  THEREOF,”  PASSED  AT 
THE  MAY  SESSION,  A.  D.  1861. 


CHAPTER  417. 

Passed  May  Session,  1862. 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  VALUATION  OF  THE 
PROPERTY  WITHIN  THE  TERRITORY  OVER  WHICH 
THE  STATE  OF  MASSACHUSETTS,  PRIOR  TO  THE 
FIRST  DAY  OF  MARCH  LAST,  EXERCISED  JURISDIC- 
TION FOR  TAXATION  AND  FOR  OTHER  PURPOSES. 


COMMUNICATION 

FROM  THE  GENERAL  TREASURER,  ON  THE  VALUATION 
OF  PAWTUCKET  AND  EAST  PROVIDENCE,  ENCLQS- 
ING  REPORT  OF  THE  COMMISSIONERS  TO  MAKE  AN 
ESTIMATE  OF  THE  RATABLE  PROPERTY  IN  THE 
TOWNS  OF  PAWTUCKET  AND  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

General  Treasurer's  Office,} 
Newport,  Aug.  26,  1862.  \ 

To  the  Honorable  General  Assembly: 

The  undersigned  respectfully  submits  a copy  of  the  report 
of  the  Commissioners  appointed  by  His  Excellency  the  Gov- 
ernor, in  pursuance  of  an  Act  passed  at  the  May  Session, 
1862,  to  make  an  estimate  of  the  property  within  the  territory 


RELATING  TO  THE)  TOWN. 


over  which  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  hath,  be- 
fore the  1st  day  of  March  last,  exercised  jurisdiction;  and 
which,  since  said  1st  day  of  March  last,  has  been  deemed  a 
part  of  the  State  of  Rhode  Island. 

SAMUEL  A.  PARKER, 
General  Treasurer. 


REPORT  OF  THE  COMMISSIONERS  TO  MAKE  AN  ESTI- 
MATE OF  THE  RATABLE  PROPERTY  IN  THE  TOWNS 
OF  PAWTUCKET  AND  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

The  Commisioners  who  were  appointed  by  the  Governor, 
m accordance  with  the  provisions  of  an  Act  of  the  General 
Assembly,  passed  at  their  May  Session,  A.  D.  1862,  entitled, 
“An  Act  to  provide  for  the  valuation  of  the  property  within 
the  territory  over  which  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  prior  to 
the  first  day  of  March  last,  exercised  jurisdiction  for  taxa- 
tion, and  for  other  purposes,”  respectfully 

Report 

That  they  were  severally  engaged  in  the  faithful  performance 
of  their  duties;  they  appointed  one  freeholder  in  each  of  said 
towns  to  assist  them  in  making  said  valuation,  and  conformed 
in  their  proceedings  to  the  law  of  this  State,  passed  May, 
A.  D.  1855,  under  which  the  valuation  of  the  towns  in  this 
State  in  Chapter  12,  Title  III,  of  the  Revised  Statutes,  was 
made;  and  now  present  the  following,  as  the  valuation  by 
them  made : 

The  whole  value  of  the  ratable  property  in  the 
town  of  Pawtucket,  according  to  the  mode 
of  valuation  prescribed  by  said  Act,  is $2,129,000 

The  value  of  the  whole  ratable  property  in  the 
town  of  East  Providence,  according  to  the 
mode  of  valuation  prescribed  by  said  Act,  is. . 1,130,000 


2 


ACTS  OF  THE)  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY 


The  total  value  of  the  ratable  property  within  the 
territory  over  which  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachuestts  hath,  before  the  1st  day  of 
March  last,  exercised  jurisdiction,  and  which 
since  the  said  1st  day  of  March  last,  has  been 
deemed  a part  of  the  State  of  Rhode  Island, 
comprising  the  territory  heretofore  called  Paw- 
tucket, now  the  town  of  Pawtucket,  in  this 
State,  and  that  part  of  the  town  heretofore 

called  Seekonk,  in  the  State  of  Massachusetts, 

now  the  town  of  East  Providence,  in  this  State  $3,259,000 


The  entire  valuation  of  the  said  towns,  if  the  property 
was  estimated  at  its  full  value,  would  be : 

Town  of  Pawtucket - $2,178,000 

Town  of  East  Providence 1,378,000 


Total  of  the  two  towns $3,556,000 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted,  by 

(Signed)  EDWARD  D.  PEARCE, 

ROBERT  SHERMAN, 
JOSEPH  W.  SWEET. 


CHAPTER  461. 

Passed  February  24,  1863. 

AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  CHAPTER  27,  TITLE  VI.  OF 
THE  REVISED  STATUTES,  ENTITLED  “OF  THE  ELEC- 
TION OF  REPRESENTATIVES  IN  CONGRESS.” 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  territory  embraced  within  the  towns  of 
Pawtucket  and  East  Providence,  shall  be  included  in  and 
constitute  a part  of  the  Eastern  District  for  the  election  of 


RELATING  TO  THE  TOWN. 


Representatives  to  the  Congress  of  the  United  States;  and 
the  provisions  of  Chapter  27,  Title  VI,  of  the  Revised  Stat- 
utes, and  of  all  other  acts  relating  to  the  election  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  Congress,  shall  be  applicable  to  said  towns,  and 
the  qualified  voters  resident  therein,  in  the  same  manner  as  to 
the  other  towns  embraced  in  said  District,  and  to  the  qualified 
electors  residing  in  them. 


No.  2.  RESOLUTION  TO  APPOINT  COMMISSIONERS  TO 
ESTABLISH  THE  WESTERN  BOUNDARY  OF  THE 
TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE,  AND  ALSO  THE 
BOUNDARY  BETWEEN  THE  TOWNS  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE AND  PAWTUCKET. 


Passed  May  Session,  1864. 

Resolved,  That  three  Commissioners  be  appointed  by  the 
Governor,  to  establish  the  western  boundary  of  the  town  of 
East  Providence,  and  also  the  boundary  line  between  the 
towns  of  East  Providence  and  Pawtucket. 


CHAPTER  558. 

Passed  March  7,  1865. 

AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  THE  BOUNDARY  LINE  BETWEEN 
THE  TOWNS  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  AND  PAWTUCK- 
ET, AND  THE  WESTERN  BOUNDARY  OF  THE  TOWN 
OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs: 

Section'!.  That  the  following  described  line  is  hereby 
established  as  the  boundary  line  between  the  towns  of  East 
Providence  and  Pawtucket,  in  this  State : 

Beginning  at  a point  in  Seekonk  river,  in  range  with  the 
present  boundary  line  between  said  towns,  two  hundred  feet 


H 


ACTS  OB  the:  GENSRAI,  ASSEMBLY 


from  ordinary  high  water  mark  on  the  easterly  shore,  thence 
running  easterly  along  said  present  boundary  line  and  in  con- 
tinuation thereof  across  Ten  Mile  river  until  it  strikes  the 
boundary  line  between  the  States  of  Rhode  Island  and  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

That  the  following  described  line  is  hereby  established  as 
the  western  boundary  line  of  the  town  of  East  Providence  in 
this  State : 

Beginning  at  a point  above  described  in  Seekonk  river,  in 
range  with  the  present  boundary  line  between  said  towns  of 
East  Providence  and  Pawtucket,  two  hundred  feet  from  ordi- 
nary high  water  mark  on  the  easterly  shore,  thence  running 
southerly  in  a straight  line  to  a point  in  said  river  two  hun- 
dred feet  due  west  from  the  most  westerly  point  of  Bucklin’s 
Island  at  ordinary  high  water  mark,  thence  running  southerly 
in  a straight  line  to  a point  in  said  river,  two  hundred  feet 
due  west  from  the  most  westerly  projection  of  Grinnell  point 
at  ordinary  high  water  mark,  thence  southerly  in  a straight 
line  to  a point  in  said  river,  two  hundred  feet  due  west  from 
the  most  westerly  projection  of  Walker’s  point  at  ordinary 
high  water  mark,  thence  southerly  and  westerly  to  the  north- 
westerly corner  of  the  stone  abutment  of  Central  bridge  upon 
the  easterly  side  of  said  river,  thence  southerly  and  westerly 
to  the  northwesterly  corner  of  the  stone  abutment  on  Wash- 
ington bridge  on  the  easterly  side  of  said  river,  thence  along 
the  face  of  said  abutment  to  the  southwesterly  corner  there- 
of, thence  southerly  to  the  northwesterly  corner  of  the  stone 
abutment  of  the  railroad  bridge  on  the  easterly  side  of  said 
river  and'  now  forming  the  east  abutment  of  the  draw  bridge, 
thence  southerly  along  the  face  of  said  abutment  and  the 
continuing  stone  wall,  one  hundred  feet  measuring  from  the 
north  side  of  said  draw,  thence  southerly  and  westerly  in  a 
straight  line  to  the  northeast  corner  of  the  wharf  belonging 
to  the  Boston  and  Providence  Railroad  Company  on  the  east 
side  of  the  river,  thence  along  the  front  of  said  wharf  to 
the  southwesterly  corner  thereof,  thence  around  Burges’s 
point  following  a line  in  said  river  where  the  water  is  five 


RELATING  TO  THE  TOWN. 


15 


feet  deep  at  ordinary  low  water,  until  it  comes  to  a point  in 
said  river  in  range  with  the  division  line  between  the  land  of 
the  late  Tristam  Burges  and  the  land  of  A.  H.  Okie,  trustee, 
thence  southerly  in  a straight  line  to  a point* in  Providence 
river,  three  hundred  feet  due  west  of  the  most  westerly  pro- 
jection of  Devil’s  Hand  Rock  at  ordinary  high  water,  thence 
southerly  in  a straight  line  to  the  most  westerly  projection 
of  Kettle  Point  at  ordinary  low  water,  thence  along  the  east- 
erly shore  of  Providence  river  at  ordinary  low  water  until 
it  comes  to  the  boundary  line  between  the  towns  of  East 
Providence  and  Barrington,  including  in  the  limits  of  said 
town  of  East  Providence  all  islands  and  rocks  exposed  at 
ordinary  high  water  between  the  channel  of  said  Providence 
river  and  the  eastern  shore  thereof. 


CHAPTER  600. 

Passed  March  9,  1866. 

AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  A HARBOR  LINE  IN  THE  HAR- 
BOR IN  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE,  BETWEEN 
THE  NORTHWESTERLY  CORNER  OF  CENTRAL 
BRIDGE  AND  DEVIL’S  HAND  ROCK. 

it  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  present  boundary  line  of  the  town  of 
East  Providence,  as  the  same  was  established  at  the  January 
session,  1865,  of  the  General  Assembly,  commencing  at  the 
north-westerly  corner  of  the  stone  abutment  of  Central 
bridge,  on  the  easterly  side  of  Seekonk  river,  and  running 
as  described  in  said  Act  to  a point  in  Providence  river,  three 
hundred  feet  due  west  of  the  most  westerly  projection  of 
Devil’s  Hand  Rock,  is  hereby  established  as  the  harbor  line 
in  the  harbor  in  the  town  of  East  Providence,  to  which  the 
owners  of  the  adjoining  upland  may  fill. 

Sec.  2.  The  town  council  of  the  town  of  East  Providence 
shall  have  also  the  power  and  authority  now  possessed  by  the 


i6 


acts  of  the:  general  assembly 


General  Assembly,  to  make  provisions,  terms  and  conditions 
in  relation  to  filling  and  grading,  and  the  building  and  ex- 
tending of  wharves  to  said  harbor  lines,  in  relation  to  the 
mode  and  manner  of  constructing  said  wharves,  the  material 
of  which  the  same  shall  be  composed,  and  the  keeping  of  the 
same  in  repair,  in  relation  to  the  laying  out,  building  and  ex- 
tending of  highways,  streets,  gangways,  and  culverts  thereto, 
and  generally  to  make  such  provisions  relative  to  the  filling 
and  grading,  and  the  building  and  extending  of  wharves  to 
said  harbor  lines  as  it  shall  deem  best  for  the  public  interest 
and  convenience. 

SEC.  3.  If  any  person  or  persons  shall  violate  any  of  the 
provisions,  terms,  and  conditions  prescribed  by  said  town 
council,  by  virtue  of  the  power  and  authority  given  by  this 
Act,  or  shall  erect  or  create  any  obstruction  in  said  harbor 
beyond  said  harbor  lines,  he  or  they  shall  be  fined  not  less 
than  one  hundred  dollars,  nor  more  than  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars, to  be  recovered  by  indictment  before  the  Supreme 
Court,  one-half  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence and  the  other  half  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  State,  and 
the  town  council  of  said  town  of  East  Providence  shall  be 
authorized  before  or  after  conviction,  to  remove  such 
obstructions  at  the  expense  of  the  person  erecting  or  creating 
the  same. 


CHAPTER  718. 

Passed  February  28,  1868. 

AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  A HARBOR  LINE  ALONG  THE 
EASTERLY  SIDE  OF  SEEKONK  RIVER,  IN  EAST  PROV- 
IDENCE, FROM  A POINT  OPPOSITE  BROWN’S  BRICK- 
YARD TO  GREENWOOD  POINT. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  A harbor  line  is  hereby  established  along  the 
easterly  side  of  that  point  of  Seekonk  river  between  James 


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Brown’s  brick-yard  and  Greenwood  Point,  in  East  Provi- 
dence, which  is  described  as  follows,  to  wit : Beginning  at 
ordinary  high  water  mark  opposite  James  S.  Brown’s  brick- 
yard, and  extending  southerly  in  courses  indicated  by  a brick- 
colored  line  upon  a plat  of  a part  of  Seekonk  river  herewith 
filed  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  passing  the  Rum- 
lord  Chemical  Works,  three  hundred  feet  distant  from  high 
water  mark,  and  extending  southerly  to  a point  one  hundred 
and  twenty  feet  distant  from  and  opposite  to  the  most  west- 
erly part  of  Greenwood  Point  at  high  water  mark. 

Sec.  2.  The  riparian  proprietors  of  lands  along  the  said 
line  shall  have  the  right  to  wharf  out  and  fill  in  from  their 
shores,  between  the  said  points  to  the  said  harbor  line,  they 
taking  care  to  have  the  wharves  so  constructed,  and  the 
filling  to  be  made,  as  not  to  injure  or  fill  into  the  channel  of 
the  said  river  beyond  the  said  harbor  line. 


CHAPTER  885. 

Passed  June  15,  1870. 

AN  ACT  DIVIDING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE 
INTO  DISTRICTS  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  VOTING. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  That  the  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby 
divided  into  two  districts  for  the  purpose  of  balloting  for 
representatives  to  Congress,  electors  of  President  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States,  Governor,  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  Secretary  of  State,  Attorney  General,  and  General 
Treasurer;  and  Town  Clerk,  Town  Council,  Judge  of  Pro- 
bate, Town  Treasurer,  a School  Committee  of  three  mem- 
bers, Justices  of  the  Peace,  and  also  Senators  and 
Representatives  to  the  General  Assembly ; to  be  designated 
and  bounded  as  follows,  viz: 

All  that  part  of  the  town  lying  south  of  a line  beginning  at 


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.he  east  abutment  of  the  Red  bridge  (so  called)  in  said  town, 
and  running  easterly  through  the  centre  of  the  highway  to 
Broadway,  thence  across  said  Broadway  and  through  the 
centre  of  Bastow  Avenue,  crossing  the  north  and  south  road 
near  the  residence  of  Thomas  A.  Sweetland,  and  thence 
through  the  centre  of  the  lane  leading  to  the  house  of  Perry 
Barney,  and  running  in  said  easterly  direction  to  the  bound- 
ary line  between  the  States  of  Rhode  Island  and  Massa- 
chusetts, shall  be  called  District  No.  1,  and  the  ballots  of 
the  electors  residing  in  said  district  shall  be  cast  at  the  school 
house  in  School  District  No.  1,  or  at  such  other  convenient 
place  in  the  village  adjacent  to  Washington  Bridge  as  may 
be  designated  therefor  by  the  town  council.  All  that  part 
of  said  town  lying  north  of  said  line  running  easterly  from 
Red  Bridge,  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  called  District  No.  2,  and 
the  ballots  of  the  electors  residing  in  said  district  shall  be 
cast  at  the  town  house. 

Sec.  2.  The  polls  in  said  District  No.  1 shall,  for  the  elec- 
tion of  Representatives  to  Congress,  electors  of  President 
and  Vice  President  of  the  United  States,  State  and  Town 
Officers,  be  kept  open  until  eight  o’clock  in  the  evening  and 
no  longer. 

Sec.  3.  For  greater  convenience  in  the  exercise  of  the 
elective  franchise,  any  elector  of  said  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence, upon  request  made  in  writing  or  in  person  to  the 
town  clerk,  at  any  time  between  the  first  day  of  May  and 
the  first  day  of  March  in  the  succeeding  year,  shall  have  his 
name  put  upon  the  voting  list  of  either  district,  as  he  may 
request,  without  reference  to  his  actual  residence. 

Sec.  4.  The  town  council  of  said  town  shall  and  may 
hereafter  at  their  next  meeting,  after  their  annual  election, 
choose  and  elect  so  many  town  officers  as  by  law  of  the  State 
are  or  shall  be  required,  excepting  such  as  are  directed  by 
this  Act  to  be  otherwise  elected. 

SEC.  5.  The  district  clerks  shall  receive  from  the  town 
the  same  compensation  as  town  clerks  are  entitled  to  receive 
for  similar  services. 


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Se:c.  6.  No  town  meeting  shall  be  held  in  said  town  on 
the  first  Wednesday  of  April  next,  other  than  the  district 
meetings  as  hereinbefore  provided.  The  annual  election  of 
town  council,  judge  of  probate,  town  clerk,  treasurer,  a 
school  committee  of  three  members,  and  justices  of  the 
peace,  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  April ; but  a 
town  meeting  of  said  town  shall  hereafter  be  holden  annually 
at  such  convenient  place  in  either  district  as  the  town  council 
may  select,  and  notified  by  the  town  clerk  in  the  warrant  for 
said  meeting,  on  the  second  Monday  of  April,  at  ten 
o’clock  A.  M.,  for  the  transaction  of  such  general  business 
of  the  town  as  may  legally  come  before  said  meeting;  and  all 
business  of  said  town  in  town  meeting  which  was  postponed 
and  continued  to  the  first  Wednesday  in  April  next,  shall 
be  continued  to  the  second  Monday  in  April  next. 

Se:c.  7.  The  town  council  elected  as  herein  provided  shall 
consist  of  three  members,  and  the  said  council  shall  at  some 
meeting  previous  to  the  annual  election  determine  the  num- 
ber of  justices  of  the  peace  in  each  voting  district  to  be 
elected  by  the  people.  All  the  officers  of  said  town  shall 
hereafter  be  elected  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  Aqt. 
And  officers  so  elected  shall  have  all  the  authority  and  be  sub- 
ject to  all  the  duties  appertaining  by  law  to  their  several 
offices.  All  officers  hereafter  elected  in  said  town  shall 
hold  their  several  offices  until  their  successors  are  duly  quali- 
fied. The  present  officers  of  said  town  shall  continue  in 
office  until  their  successors  are  duly  qualified.  Whenever 
any  vacancy  hereafter  occurs  in  any  of  the  offices  of  said 
town,  that  are  filled  by  the  electors  of  said  town,  the  town 
council  may  order  a new  election,  and  such  election  shall  be 
notified  and  conducted  according  to  law  and  the  provisions 
herein  contained  ; and  whenever  any  vacancy  hereafter  occurs 
in  any  of  the  offices  that  are  filled  by  the  town  council  of 
said  town,  the  town  council  may  fill  such  vacancy,  and  the 
persons  so  elected  by  the  council  shall  hold  their  offices  until 
the  time  of  the  annual  election  of  such  officers  according  to 


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the  provisions  of  this  Act,  and  until  their  successors  are 
duly  qualified. 

Sec.  8.  All  acts  or  parts  of  Acts  of  the  General  Assembly 
inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby  repealed,  but  no  law  applica- 
ble to  said  town  of  East  Providence  is  to  be  changed  by  this 
Act,  except  so  far  as  the  same  is  inconsistent  herewith. 

Sec.  9.  This  act  shall  go  into  effect  immediately  after  its 
passage. 


CHAPTER  964. 

Passed  February  21,  1872. 

AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  CHAPTER  34  OF  THE  RE- 
VISED STATUTES,  “OF  THE  TOWN  COUNCIL.” 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  town  councils  of  the  towns  of  Westerly 
and  East  Providence  are  hereby  fully  authorized. and  empow- 
ered to  establish  and  maintain  sidewalks  and  common  sewers, 
to  provide  for  a day  and  night  police,  for  the  lighting  of  the 
streets,  to  make  regulations  in  relation  to  the  location  and 
continuing  of  planing  mills  and  of  steam  engines,  and  to  pre- 
vent the  carrying  on  of  business  dangerous  to  health  within 
the  compact  part  of  said  towns,  and  as  to  the  storing  and 
keeping  of  inflammable,  explosive  materials,  such  as  gunpow- 
der, kerosene,  camphene,  nitro-glycerine,  and  other  like  sub- 
stances or  materials ; and  also,  as  to  the  keeping  of  hogs 
within  the  compact  part  of  said  towns ; and  generally  to  pass 
such  ordinances  in  addition  to  those  authorized  to  be  passed 
by  the  town  councils  of  the  several  towns  in  the  State,  as  may 
tend  to  protect  the  health,  preserve  the  peace,  and  protect  the 
property  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  towns,  and  which  are 
not  contrary  to  law,  and  to  enforce  the  said  regulations  and 
ordinances  by  proper  penalties,  by  fine  not  exceeding  fifty 
dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  three  months. 


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Se)c.  2.  The  town  councils  of  said  towns  of  Westerly  and 
East  Providence  may  remove  all  officers  by  said  councils  ap- 
pointed, for  misconduct  or  incapacity,  at  any  regular  meeting. 
• Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its 
passage. 


AN  ACT. 

TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  TO 
ISSUE  BONDS. 

Passed  January  Session,  1872. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  author- 
ized and  empowered  to  issue  bonds  under  its  corporate  name 
and  seal,  and  bearing  not  more  than  seven  per  cent,  interest 
per  annum,  payable  semi-annually,  at  such  times  not  exceed- 
ing twenty  years  from  the  date  thereof,  and  for  such  sums  as 
said  town  may  in  town  meeting  by  such  vote  decide ; the 
amount  for  which  said  town  may  issue  bonds,  not  to  exceed 
the  sum  of  thirty  thousand  dollars;  said  bonds  shall  be  obliga- 
tory upon  said  town  in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same 
extent  as  other  debts  lawfully  contracted  by  said  town. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  town  shall  have  power,  by  vote  in  town 
meeting,  to  direct  the  time  and  manner  in  which  the  said 
bonds  shall  be  issued  and  sold,  and  shall  establish  a sinking 
fund  for  the  payment  thereof,  and  shall  appropriate  and  pay 
to  said  fund  from  the  town  tax  annually  assessed  not  less 
than  five  per  cent,  of  the  whole  amount  of  said  bonds  at  that 
time  issued. 

Sec.  3.  The  bonds  hereby  authorized  shall  be  signed  by 
the  town  treasurer  and  countersigned  and  registered  by  the 
clerk  of  said  town. 

Sec.  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  upon  its 
passage. 


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CHAPTER  437. 

Passed  February  19,  1875. 

AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  CHAPTER  885,  OF  THE  PUB- 
LIC LAWS,  ENTITLED,  “AN  ACT 'DIVIDING  THE  TOWN 
OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  INTO  DISTRICTS  FOR  THE 
PURPOSE  OF  VOTING.” 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  shall  hereafter, 
annually,  at  its  annual  town  meeting,  elect  a town  council, 
consisting  of  five  members. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith, 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  go  into  effect  immediately. 


CHAPTER  485. 

Passed  April  16,  1875. 

AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  THE  BOUNDARY  LINE  BETWEEN 
THE  TOWNS  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  AND  BARRING- 
TON. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozus : 

Section  1.  The  following  described  line  is  hereby  estab- 
lished as  the  boundary  line  between  the  towns  of  East  Provi- 
dence and  Barrington,  in  this  State : Beginning  at  a point  in 
the  centre  of  Runin’s  river,  in  range  of  two  stone  monuments 
now  standing  on  the  dividing  line  between  the  towns  of  See- 
konk,  in  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  and  Barrington,  said 
point  being  at  the  south-east  corner  of  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  and  also  at  the  south-west  corner  of  said  town 
of  Seekonk,  thence  in  a straight  line  running  south  fifty-seven 
degrees  and  twenty-six  minutes  west,  twelve  thousand  six 
hundred  and  twelve  feet,  to  a point  in  Bullock’s  Cove,  thence 
running  south  ten  degrees  and  twenty -eight  minutes  west,  to 


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and  into  Narragansett  Bay,  to  the  limits  of  said  towns;  and 
the  jurisdiction  of  said  towns  of  East  Providence  and  Bar- 
rington, respectively,  shall  hereafter  extend  to  said  boundary 
line. 

Se:c.  2.  The  report  of  the  commission  appointed  at  the 
present  session  of  the  general  assembly  to  run  out  and  estab- 
lish said  boundary  line,  and  the  plat  accompanying  their  said 
report,  shall  remain  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 
State. 

SEC.  3.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith, 
are  hereby  repealed. 


CHAPTER  637 

Passed  May  31,  1877. 

AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  “AN  ACT 
DIVIDING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  INTO 
DISTRICTS  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  VOTING.” 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  annual  town  meeting  of  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  for  the  transaction  of  the  general  business  of  the 
town,  shall  hereafter  be  holden  on  the  last  Wednesday  in 
March  in  each  year. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its 
passage. 


CHAPTER  762. 

Passed  April  10,  1879. 

AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  CHAPTER  637,  OF  THE  PUB- 
LIC LAWS,  ENTITLED  “AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF 
AN  ACT  ENTITLED  ‘AN  ACT  DIVIDING  THE  TOWN 


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OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  INTO  DISTRICTS  FOR  THE 
PURPOSE  OF  VOTING.’  ” 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs : 

Section  1.  The  annual  town  meeting  of  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  for  the  transaction  of  the  general  business  of  the 
town,  shall  hereafter  be  holden  on  the  second  Monday  of 
April  at  10  o’clock  a.  mv  in  each  year. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its 
passage. 


CHAPTER  759. 

Passed  April  10,  1879. 

AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  HARBOR  LINES  NEAR  INDIA 
POINT  IN  THE  CITY  OF  PROVIDENCE,  IN  EAST  PROV- 
IDENCE AND  ON  THE  EASTERLY  SIDE  OF  PROVI- 
DENCE HARBOR. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs : 

Section  1.  Harbor  lines  near  India  Point  in  the  city  of 
Providence  are  hereby  established  as  follows,  viz. : Beginning 
at  a point  on  the  northerly  line  of  India  street,  413.42  feet 
east  of  the  northeast  corner  of  Gano  and  India  streets,  which 
said  point  is  the  southerly  point  on  the  harbor  line  from  India 
street  to  Bower  street  as  established  May,  a.  d.  1877,  and 
thence  running  southerly  on  said  harbor  line  produced  207.77 
feet  to  a point  in  range  with  the  face  of  the  river  wall  from 
the  railroad  bridge  northerly ; thence  running  southerly  and 
more  westerly  at  an  angle  of  160°  2'  41"  with  the  last  named 
line  a distance  of  85.50  feet  to  the  southeast  corner  of  the  top 
of  the  westerly  abutment  of  said  railroad  bridge ; thence  run- 
ning southerly  and  more  westerly  at  an  angle  of  165°  16'  13" 
with  the  last  named  line  a distance  of  47.79  feet  to  the  north- 


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easterly  corner  of  a wharf  belonging  to  the  Boston  and  Provi- 
dence R.  R.  Co. ; thence  running  southerly  and  more  westerly 
along  the  face  of  said  wharf  at  an  angle  of  177°  45'  40"  with 
the  last  named  line  a distance  of  96.06  feet  to  a point  at  the 
intersection  of  the  ranges  of  the  wharf -lines  on  each  side ; 
thence  running  southwesterly  at  an  angle  of  132°  13'  04" 
with  the  last  named  line,  a distance  of  317.30  feet  to  an  angle 
in  the  wharf;  thence  running  northwesterly  at  an  angle  of 
149°  48'  44"  with  the  last  named  line,  a distance  of  187.16 
feet  to  an  angle  in  the  wharf ; thence  running  northwesterly 
and  more  northerly  at  an  angle  of  159°  24'  17"  with  the  last 
named  line,  a distance  of  190.66  feet  to  an  angle  in  the  wharf. 

Se;c.  2.  Harbor  lines  in  East  Providence  near  and  below 
Washington  bridge  and  on  the  east  side  of  Providence  harbor, 
are  hereby  established  as  follows,  viz. : Beginning  at  the  in- 
tersection of  the  line  of  the  river  wall  north  of  the  railroad 
bridge,  produced  with  a straight  line  from  the  face  of  the 
easterly  abutment  of  Washington  or  India  bridge  to  the  face 
of  the  easterly  abutment  of  Red  bridge,  and  thence  running 
southerly,  on  said  line  of  the  river  wall  north  of  the  railroad 
bridge  produced,  a distance  of  86.25  feet,  to  a point  in  the 
northerly  side  of  India  street  produced,  which  said  point  is 
488.26  feet  distant  from  the  first  mentioned  point  of  the 
harbor  line  on  the  west  side  of  the  river  hereinbefore  de- 
scribed, and  making  an  angle  of  87°  24'  42"  on  the  easterly 
side  of  this  harbor  line  with  said  northerly  line  of  India 
street  produced ; thence  continuing  southerly  in  the  same  line 
a distance  of  325.91  feet  to  a point  on  the  range  of  the  river 
wall  at  the  railroad  bridge  produced  southerly,  which  said 
point  is  403.91  feet  distant  from  the  southeasterly  corner  of 
the  westerly  abutment  of  the  railroad  bridge;  thence  running 
southwesterly  on  a corner,  tangent  to  the  last-named  line,  of 
450  feet  radius,  a distance  of  751.77  feet  to  the  northeast 
corner  of  the  Boston  and  Providence  R.  R.  Co.’s  wharf, 
which  said  point  is  288.72  feet  distant  from  an  angle  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  river  marked  “G”  on  a plan  signed  by  the 
harbor  commissioners,  February  15,  1879,  and  on  file  in  the 


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office  of  the  secretary  of  state ; thence  running  southwesterly 
at  an  angle  of  126°  17'  24"  with  the  radius  of  the  last-named 
curve  at  its  westerly  end,  a distance  of  448.62  feet  along  the 
lace  of  said  wharf,  and  on  the  range  of  said  face  produced, 
to  a point  300  feet  southwesterly  of  the  westerly  corner  of 
said  wharf  and  420.95  feet  distant  from  the  angle  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  river,  marked  “I”  on  the  said  plan  : 
thence  running  northwesterly  at  an  angle  of  135°  53'  48" 
with  the  last-named  line,  a distance  of  320.55  feet  to  a point 
434.04  feet  from  the  point  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  river, 
marked  “J”  on  the  said  plan ; thence  running  westerly  and 
southwesterly  on  a curve  tangent  to  the  last-named  line  of 
100  feet  radius,  a distance  of  117.83  feet  to  a point  170  feet 
distant  from  the  northwesterly  corner  of  the  marine  railway 
building;  thence  running  southwesterly  on  a line  tangent  to 
the  last-named  curve  a distance  of  700  feet;  thence  running 
southwesterly  and  more  southerly  at  an  angle  155°  44'  59" 
with  the  last-named  line  a distance  of  831.81  feet,  thence 
running  southwesterly  and  more  southerly  at  an  angle  of 
161°  39'  35"  with  the  last-named  line  a distance  of  300 
feet;  thence  running  southerly  at  an  angle  of  156°  20'  25" 
with  the  last-named  line  a distance  of  300  feet  to  the  north- 
westerly corner  of  the  Lehigh  and  Wilkesbarre  Coal  Co.’s 
pier,  and  making  an  angle  of  78°  38'  15"  with  the  axial  line 
of  said  pier  ; thence  running  southerly  and  more  easterly  at 
an  angle  of  167°  24'  21"  with  the  last-named  line,  along  the 
face  of  said  pier  a distance  of  101.39  feet  to  the  southwest- 
erly corner  of  said  pier ; thence  running  southerly  and  more 
easterly  at  an  angle  of  169°  52'  09"  with  the  last-named  line, 
and  at  an  angle  of  78°  38'  15"  with  the  axial  line  of  said  pier, 
a distance  of  6812.08  feet  to  the  most  salient  point  of  the  low- 
water  line  at  Kettle  Point,  which  said  point  is  distant  43.11 
feet  from  a copper  bolt  set  in  the  rock,  and  in  the  direction 
from  said  bolt,  indicated  on  the  same  plan.  For  a further 
description  of  said  harbor  lines,  reference  is  to  be  had  to  a 
map  thereof,  signed  by  the  harbor  commissioners,  February 
15,  1879,  and  on  file  as  aforesaid.  , 


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SEC.  3.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith, 
and  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  authorizing  the  filling  in  to  the 
waters  of  the  said  river  without  the  line  by  this  act  desig- 
nated, are  hereby  repealed. 


CHAPTER  349. 

Passed  March  28,  1883. 

AN  ACT  PROVIDING  FOR  CLEARING  THE  CHANNEE  OF 
THE  SEEKONK  RIVER  AT  INDIA  POINT,  IN  PROVI- 
DENCE, OF  OBSTRUCTIONS,  AND  FOR  THE  CON-# 
STRUCTION  OF  A BRIDGE  NEAR  THE  SITE  OF  THE 
PROVIDENCE  WASHINGTON  BRIDGE. 


CHAPTER  381. 

Passed  April  13,  1883. 

AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  CHAPTER  885  OF  THE  PUB- 
LIC LAWS,  ENTITLED  “AN  ACT  DIVIDING  THE  TOWN 
OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  INTO  DISTRICTS  FOR  THE 
PURPOSE  OF  VOTING,”  PASSED  AT  THE  MAY  SES- 
SION, 1870. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows : 

Section  1.  Section  1 of  chapter  885  of  the  Public  Laws, 
entitled,  “An  Act  dividing  the  town  of  East  Providence  into 
districts  for  the  purpose  of  voting,”  is  hereby  amended  so  as 
to  read  as  follows : 

“Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  di- 
vided into  three  districts  for  the  purpose  of  balloting  for 
representatives  in  congress,  electors  of  president  and  vice- 
president  of  the  United  States,  governor,  lieutenant-gover- 
nor, secretary  of  state,  attorney-general  and  general  treas- 
urer; and  town  clerk,  town  council,  judge  of  probate,  town 


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treasurer,  a school  committee  of  three  members,  justices  of 
the  peace,  and  also  senators  and  representatives  in  the 
general  assembly,  to  be  designated  and  bounded  as  follows, 
viz. : 

“All  that  part  of  the  town  lying  south  of  a line  beginning 
at  the  east  abutment  of  the  Red  bridge  (so  called)  in  said 
town  and  running  easterly  through  the  centre  of  the  highway 
to  Broadway  thence  across  said  Broadway  and  through  the 
centre  of  Waterman  avenue,  crossing  the  north  and  south 
road  near  the  residence  of  Thomas  A.  Sweetland,  and  thence 
through  the  centre  of  the  avenue  leading  to  the  house  of  John 
P.  Barney,  and  running  in  said  easterly  direction  to  the  boun- 
dary line  between  the  states  of  Rhode  Island  and  Massachu- 
setts, and  also  that  part  of  the  town  lying  north  of  a line  be- 
ginning at  the  Silver  Spring  wharf  in  said  town  and  running 
easterly  through  the  centre  of  the  road  from  Silver  Spring  to 
the  north  and  south  road  near  the  residence  of  James  H. 
Armington,  and  thence  running  east  to  the  boundary  line  be- 
tween the  states  of  Rhode  Island  and  Massachusetts,  shall  be 
called  district  No.  1,  and  the  ballots  of  the  electors  residing 
in  said  district  shall  be  cast  at  such  convenient  place  in  said 
district  as  may  be  designated  therefor  by  the  town  council. 
All  that  part  of  said  town  lying  north  of  said  line  running 
easterly  from  Red  bridge  as  aforesaid  shall  be  called  district 
No.  2,  and  the  ballots  of  the  electors  residing  in  said  district 
shall  be  cast  at  the  town  house  at  East  Providence  Centre. 
All  that  part  of  said  town  lying  south  of  said  line  running 
easterly  from  said  Silver  Spring  wharf  as  aforesaid  shall  be 
called  district  No.  3,  and  the  ballots  of  the  electors  residing 
in  said  district  shall  be  cast  at  such  convenient  place  in  said 
district  as  may  be  designated  therefor  by  the  town  council.” 

SFc.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Se:c.  3.  This  act  shall  go  into  effect  immediately. 


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CHAPTER  472. 

Passed  March  20,  1885. 

AN  ACT  IN  ADDITION  TO  CHAPTER  50  OF  THE  PUBLIC 
STATUTES,  “OF  THE  POWERS  AND  DUTIES  OF 
TOWNS  AND  OF  THE  TOWN  TREASURER  AND  TOWN 
CLERK  RELATIVE  TO  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS.” 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  school  committee  of  the  town  of  East 
Providence  shall  consist  of  five  members.  At  the  next  an- 
nual town  meeting  for  the  election  of  state  and  town  officers 
three  of  said  members  shall  be  elected,  one  for  one  year,  one 
for  two  years,  and  one  for  three  years,  and  annually  there- 
after as  vacancies  occur,  the  same  shall  be  filled  by  members 
elected  for  three  years. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  pass- 
age. 


CHAPTER  593. 

Passed  April  30,  1886. 

AN  ACT  IN  RELATION  TO  MAIN  DRAINS  AND  COMMON 
SEWERS  IN  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs : 

Section  1.  The  town  council  of  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence, whenever  they  shall  adjudge  it  to  be  necessary,  are 
hereby  authorized  to  lay  and  make  main  drains  and  common 
sewers  in  any  of  the  streets  of  said  town,  the  cost  and  ex- 
pense of  which  shall  be  paid  in  manner  hereinafter  provided. 

SEC.  2.  Whenever  any  such  main  drain  or  common  sewer 
shall  be  constructed,  an  assessment  shall  be  made  upon  all 
estates  abutting  upon  that  portion  of  the  street  in  which  such 


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main  drain  or  common  sewer  shall  be  located,  and  at  a rate 
not  exceeding  fifty  cents  for  each  front  foot  of  such  estates 
upon  such  streets  and  not  exceeding  one  cent  for  each  square 
foot  of  such  estates  between  such  street  and  a line  not  ex- 
ceeding one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  distant  from  and  parallel 
with  the  line  of  such  street ; provided,  however,  that  where 
any  estate  is  situated  between  two  streets,  the  area  upon 
which  such  assessment  of  not  exceeding  one  cent  for  each 
square  foot  is  made,  shall  not  extend  to  more  than  one-half 
the  distance  between  such  streets;  and  provided,  also,  that 
where  any  estate  is  situated  at  the  corner  of  two  streets,  or 
is  otherwise  so  situated  as  to  be  assessed  for  the  expense  of 
making  a sewer  in  one  of  such  streets,  that  portion  of  such 
estate  assessed  for  a sewer  in  one  of  such  streets  shall  not  be 
liable  to  be  assessed  upon  its  area  for  the  cost  of  constructing 
a sewer  in  the  other  of  such  streets,  but  only  for  its  frontage 
upon  such  street. 

Sec.  3.  All  the  cost  and  expense  of  constructing  any  such 
main  drain  or  common  sewer,  in  excess  of  the  proceeds  of 
the  assessments  aforesaid,  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury 
of  said  town. 

Sec.  4.  Said  town  council  may  provide  by  ordinance  for 
the  appointment  of  a board  of  three  commissioners,  who 
shall  hold  their  office  during  the  pleasure  of  the  council,  and 
who  shall  make  all  of  the  assessments  aforesaid,  and  at  such 
rates  not  exceeding  the  rates  limited  in  section  two  as  they 
shall  in  their  discretion  determine,  and  who  shall  have  and 
exercise  such  portion  of  the  authority  hereby  conferred  upon 
the  town  council,  except  the  authority  to  determine  in  what 
streets  said  main  drains  and  common  sewers  shall  be  con- 
structed, as  shall  be  specified  in  said  ordinance.  They  may 
also  fix  the  compensation  of  said  commissioners  and  pre- 
scribe their  duties. 

Sec.  5.  Said  commissioners  shall  make  a report  in  writing 
to  the  town  council  of  all  assessments  made  under  the  au- 
thority of  this  act,  which  assessments,  after  being  confirmed 
by  said  council  shall  be  certified  to  the  assessors  of'  taxes  c f 


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said  town  by  the  council  clerk,  and  said  clerk  shall  also  with- 
in ten  days  after  such  confirmation  give  notice  to  the  owners 
of  the  estates  so  assessed  of  such  assessment  by  advertise- 
ment in  some  public  newspaper  published  in  said  town  or  in 
such  other  manner  as  the  town  council  may  direct.  When- 
ever the  sewer  assessments  so  certified,  shall  have  been  con- 
firmed for  at  least  ninety  davs,  the  assessors  of  taxes  shall 
add  such  assessments  to  the  taxes  assessed  upon  the  land  at 
the  next  annual  assessment  of  town  taxes.  Provided,  how- 
ever, if  the  owner  of  any  estate,  within  sixty  days  after  the 
council  clerk  shall  have  given  notice  to  the  owners  as  herein 
specified  shall  notify  the  town  council  in  writing  to  apportion 
the  said  sewer  assessment,  the  town  council  shall  apportion 
it  into  three  equal  parts  and  cause  such  apportionment  to  be 
certified  to  the  said  assessors,  and  the  assessors  shall  add  one- 
of  such  parts  with  interest  from  the  date  of  such  apportion- 
ment to  the  annual  town  tax  of  said  estate  for  each  of  three 
years  next  ensuing.  Said  sewer  assessments  shall  be  and  re- 
main a lien  upon  such  land  and  shall  draw  interest  from  the 
time  of  payment  stated  in  the  order  making  the  same  until 
paid ; and  shall  be  collected  in  the  same  way  as  town  taxes 
assessed  upon  land  in  said  town. 

SEC.  6.  No  estate  or  portion  thereof,  shall  be  assessed  for 
the  construction  of  any  sewer  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  unless  such  estate  or  some  portion  thereof,  shall  abut  and 
be  bounded  upon  the  street  in  which  said  sewer  shall  have 
been  constructed. 

Sec.  7.  When  any  such  assessment  shall  be  made  upon 
any  land  for  the  expense  of  constructing  any  such  sewer,  the 
owner  of  the  land  so  assessed  shall  have  the  right  to  connect 
such  land  with  such  sewer  under  such  general  rules  and  regu- 
lations as  said  town  council  shall  prescribe. 

SEC.  8.  The  town  council  may  abate  from  any  assessment 
made  as  aforesaid,  on  irregular  shaped  lots  such  portion 
thereof  as  they  may  deem  proper. 

SEC.  9.  The  said  town  shall  in  the  first  instance 
pay  all  the  costs  and  expenses  that  may  be  incurred  in  con- 


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structing  such  main  drains  and  common  sewers  in  advance  of 
the  assessments  to  be  made  therefor  as  provided  in  this  act, 
but  as  fast  as  such  assessments  shall  be  paid,  the  proceeds 
therefrom  shall  be  applied  in  payment  of  such  costs  and  ex- 
penses. 

SEC.  10.  No  main  drain  or  common  sewer  shall  be  made 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act  until  an  appropriation  of 
money  for  the  construction  thereof  shall  be  made  by  the  town 
in  town  meeting  duly  called  and  notified. 

Sec.  11.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its 
passage. 


CHAPTER  805. 

Passed  April  26,  1889. 

AN  ACT  IN  ADDITION  TO  AND  IN  AMENDMENT  OF 
CHAPTER  593  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LAWS,  ENTITLED  “AN 
ACT  IN  RELATION  TO  MAIN  DRAINS  AND  COMMON 
SEWERS”  IN  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

Section  1.  Section  2 of  said  act  is  hereby  amended  by 
substituting  “twenty-five”  for  “fifty,”  in  the  fifth  line  of  said 
section  2,  “one-half  cent”  for  “one  cent,”  in  the  seventh  line, 
and  “one-half  cent”  for  “one  cent”  in  the  twelfth  line,  so  that 
as  amended,  section  2 will  read  as  follows : 

“SEC.  2.  Whenever  any  such  main  drain  or  common  sewer 
shall  be  constructed,  an  assessment  shall  be  made  upon  all 
estates  abutting  upon  that  portion  of  the  street  in  which  such 
main  drain  or  common  sewer  shall  be  located,  and  at  a rate 
not  exceeding  twenty-five  cents  for  each  front  foot  of  such 
estates  upon  such  streets  and  not  exceeding  one-half  cent  for 
each  square  foot  of  such  estates  between  such  street  and  a 
line  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  distant  from 
and  parallel  with  the  line  of  such  street ; provided,  however, 
that  where  any  estate  is  situated  between  two  streets,  the 
area  upon  which  such  assessment  of  not  exceeding  one-half 


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cent  for  each  square  foot  is  made,  shall  not  extend  to  more 
than  one-half  the  distance  between  such  streets;  and  pro- 
vided, also,  that  where  any  estate  is  situated  at  the  corner  of 
two  streets,  or  is  otherwise  so  situated  as  to  be  assessed  for 
the  expense  of  making  a sewer  in  one  of  such  streets,  that 
portion  of  such  estate  assessed  for  a sewer  in  one  of  such 
streets  shall  not  be  liable  to  be  assessed  upon  its  area  for  the 
cost  of  constructing  a sewer  in  the  other  of  such  streets,  but 
only  for  its  frontage  upon  such  street.” 

Sec.  2.  The  provisions  of  chapter  593  of  the  Public  Laws, 
shall  not  apply  to  the  construction  of  main  drains  and  sewers 
in  Warren  avenue  from  Tenth  street  westerly  to  Seekonk 
river,  or  in  Taunton  avenue  from  James  street  to  Warren 
avenue. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its 
passage,  and  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed. 


CHAPTER  725. 

Passed  June  1,  1888. 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ISSUE  BONDS. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  au- 
thorized and  empowered  to  issue  bonds  under  its  corporate 
name  and  seal  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  dollars.  Said  bonds  shall  be  of  a denomina- 
tion not  less  than  five  hundred  nor  more  than  five  thousand 
dollars  each,  shall  bear  interest  at  a rate  not  to  exceed  five 
per  centum  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually,  and  be  issued 
in  a series  of  thirty  classes  of  equal  number  and  amount,  one 
of  which  said  classes  shall  become  payable  on  the  expiration 
of  each  and  every  year  of  thirty  years  from  and  after  the 
date  thereof,  and  in  no  case  shall  any  of  said  bonds  run  for 


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a longer  period  than  thirty  years  from  the  date  thereof.  Said 
bonds  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  town  in  the  same  manner 
and  to  the  same  extent  as  other  debts  lawfully  contracted  by 
said  town. 

Sec.  2.  Said  bonds  shall  be  issued  and  sold  at  such  time 
and  in  such  manner,  by  commissioners  or  otherwise,  as  has 
been  by  said  town  in  town  meeting  holden  on  the  ninth  day  of 
April,  A.  D.  1888,  or  may  hereafter  be  provided  by  vote  of 
said  town  in  town  meeting,  and  the  proceeds  of  the  sale 
thereof  shall  be  applied  to  the  payment  of  the  present  and 
future  indebtedness  of  said  town,  including  therein  that 
which  has  been  incurred  under  the  provisions  of  Chapter  349 
of  the  acts  of  1883  and  its  amendments  and  additions,  and 
that  which  may  be  incurred  in  carrying  into  effect  the  votes 
of  said  town  in  said  first  mentioned  town  meeting  and  any 
other  indebtedness  that  said  town  may  lawfully  contract. 

Sec.  3.  The  bonds  hereby  authorized  shall  be  signed  by 
the  town  treasurer  and  countersigned  and  registered  by  the 
town  clerk  of  said  town. 

Sec.  4.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  5.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  pass- 
age. 


CHAPTER  974. 

Passed  March  17,  1891. 

[See  Chapter  n of  the  General  Laws  of  Rhode  Island,  which  takes 
the  place  of  this  law.] 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  PRINTING  AND  DISTRIBUTING 
BALLOTS  AT  ELECTIONS  FOR  TOWN  OFFICERS  BY 
THE  PEOPLE  IN  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE, 
AND  TO  REGULATE  VOTING  AT  SUCH  ELECTIONS. 


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CHAPTER  1108. 

Passed  April  21,  1892. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ASSESS  A TAX. 


CHAPTER  1242. 

Passed  May  23,  1892. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ISSUE  BONDS. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  au- 
thorized and  empowered  to  issue  bonds  under  its  corporate 
name  and  seal,  in  addition  to  the  bonds  heretofore  author- 
ized, to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  forty-five  thousand 
dollars.  Said  bonds  shall  be  of  a denomination  not  less  than 
five  hundred  nor  more  than  five  thousand  dollars  each,  shall 
bear  interest  at  a rate  not  exceeding  five  per  centum  per  an- 
num, payable  semi-annually,  and  the  principal  and  interest 
thereof  shall  be  payable  in  gold  coin  of  the  United  States  of 
America  of  the  present  standard  of  weight  and  fineness. 
Said  bonds  shall  be  divided  into  three  classes,  whereof  the 
first  class  shall  consist  of  bonds  to  the  amount  of  twenty-five 
thousand  dollars,  and  become  due  and  payable  in  thirty  years 
from  the  date  thereof ; the  second  class  shall  consist  of  bonds 
to  the  amount  of  sixty  thousand  dollars,  payable  in  forty 
years  from  the  date  thereof ; and  the  third  class  shall  consist 
of  bonds  amounting  to  sixty  thousand  dollars,  payable  in 
fifty  years  from  their  date.  Said  bonds  shall  be  obligatory 
upon  said  town,  in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent 
as  other  debts  lawfully  contracted  by  said  town. 

SEC.  2.  Said  bonds  shall  be  issued  and  sold  by  the  town 
council  of  said  town  ,and  the  proceeds  arising  from  the  sale 


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thereof  shall  be  delivered  to  the  town  treasurer,  and  shall  be 
applied  to  the  payment  of  the  present  and  future  indebted- 
ness of  said  town,  but  no  purchaser  of  said  bonds  shall  be  in 
any  way  bound  to  see  to  the  proper  application  of  the  pro- 
ceeds thereof. 

Sec.  3.  The  bonds  hereby  authorized  shall  be  signed  by 
the  town  treasurer  and  countersigned  by  the  town  clerk. 

SEC.  4.  Said  town  shall  annually  appropriate,  until  the 
bonds  issued  under  Chapter  725  of  the  Public  Laws,  passed 
at  the  May  session,  A.  D.  1888,  are  paid  in  full,  besides  a sum 
sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  upon  the  bonds  hereby  author- 
ized, such  sum  as  may  be  necessary  to  provide  for  the  pav^ 
ment  of  the  principal  and  interest  of  said  former  issue  of 
bonds,  and  thereafterwards  a sum  to  be  placed  in  a sinking 
fund  sufficient  for  the  redemption  of  the  bonds  hereby  au- 
thorized, when  and  as  the  same  become  due  and  payable. 

Sec.  5.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  6.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


CHAPTER  1332. 

Passed  June  12,  1894. 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  CONSTRUCTION  AND 
MAINTENANCE  OF  A NEW  BRIDGE  UPON  THE  SITE 
OF  THE  PRESENT  “RED  BRIDGE,”  SO  CALLED. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  city  of  Providence  shall  proceed  forth- 
with to  construct  over  the  Seekonk  river  at  the  site  of  the 
present  “Red  bridge,”  so  called,  a new  iron  or  steel  bridge 
having  a travel  way  not  less  than  thirty  feet  in  width  for  the 
use  of  vehicles,  and  having  on  either  side  thereof  a walk  for 
foot  passengers  at  least  six  feet  wide  in  the  clear.  Said 
bridge  shall  be  built  of  sufficient  strength  to  carry  a uni- 
formly distributed  load  of  at  least  one  hundred  pounds  per 


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square  foot  over  the  entire  surface  thereof,  and  a moving 
load  of  twenty  tons  upon  a wheel  base  of  twelve  feet,  and 
to  safely  allow  the  passage  of  teams  and  vehicles  over  the 
same  at  an  ordinary  road  gait.  The  draw  and  other  piers 
and  abutments  of  the  present  “Red  bridge,”  so  called,  shall, 
if  possible,  with  such  strengthening  and  additions  as  are 
necessary,  be  used  as  piers  and  abutments  for  the  bridge  to 
be  built  as  herein  provided,  and  the  centre  of  the  present 
draw  pier  shall  be  the  centre  of  the  draw  pier  of  the  said  new 
bridge,  but  the  centre  lines  of  the  old  and  new  bridge  need 
not  be  parallel.  The  draw  span  of  the  said  new  bridge  shall 
be  of  the  same  length  as  the  draw  span  of  th£  present  “Red 
bridge,”  so  called,  and  the  grade  of  the  floor  of  said  new 
bridge  may  be  raised  not  to  exceed  five  feet  above  that  of 
the  present  bridge,  if  in  the  opinion  of  the  city  engineer  of 
said  city  it  is  desirable,  in  which  case  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence and  the  city  of  Providence  s,hall  alter  the  grades  of 
their  highways  to  correspond  with  the  grade  of  said  new 
bridge. 

Sec.  2.  In  the  construction  of  said  new  bridge  the  adding 
to  and  strengthening  of  the  piers  and  abutments  of  the  pres- 
ent bridge  shall  be  as  far  as  possible  completed,  and  the  su- 
perstructure of  said  new  bridge  shall  be  upon  the  ground 
ready  for  erection,  if  possible,  before  the  superstructure  of 
the  present  bridge  is  removed,  and  generally  all  care  shall 
be  taken  in  said  construction  not  to  interrupt  for  any  longer 
time  than  is  absolutely  necessary,  the  travel  accommodated 
by  the  present  bridge. 

Sec.  3.  In  case  the  owner  of  any  land  abutting  upon  the 
highways  on  either  side  of  said  new  bridge  shall  claim  that 
such  land  has  been  damaged  by  any  of  the  work  provided 
herein  to  be  done,  and  shall  so  certify  to  the  appellate  divi- 
sion of  the  supreme  court  for  Providence  county  within  sixty 
days  after  the  completion  of  said  work,  said  court  shall  ap- 
point three  disinterested  persons  as  commissioners,  who 
shall,  upon  due  notice  and  hearing,  estimate  and  award  the 
damages  to  such  owner,  and  file  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of 


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said  court  their  appraisal  of  the  damages  by  them  awarded  to 
such  owner.  Any  person  aggrieved  by  the  award  of  said 
commissioners  may  within  three  months  after  the  filing  of 
the  appraisal  aforesaid,  appeal  to  the  common  pleas  division 
of  the  supreme  court  for  Providence  county  from  said 
award,  for  an  appraisal  of  said  damages  by  said  court,  with 
or  without  a jury  trial,  as  the  appellant  may  elect,  in  the  same 
manner  as  in  the  case  of  lands  taken  for  highways,  and 
the  amount  so  awarded  by  said  court  with  costs  shall  be 
forthwith  paid  by  the  said  city : Provided , that  said  city 
shall  not  be  entitled  to  recover  for  any  damages  to  land 
owned  by  it.  • 

Sec.  4.  The  expense  of  all  of  said  work  of  construction, 
including  the  removal  of  the  present  bridge,  together  with 
the  damages  and  costs  mentioned  in  section  three  of  this  act, 
shall  be  paid  by  the  city  of  Providence  in  the  first  instance, 
and  the  city  council  of  said  city  is  hereby  authorized  and  di- 
lected  to  make  all  such  appropriations  as  may  from  time  to 
time  be  necessary  for  that  purpose,  and  the  said  city  is  hereby 
authorized  to  hire  from  time  to  time  such  sums  of  money  on 
such  terms  and  conditions  as  said  city  council  may  prescribe, 
to  an  amount  not  exceeding  the  whole  of  the  sum  which  said 
city  of  Providence  may  be  required  to  expend  under  any  of 
the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  the  said  city  council  may  pro- 
vide for  such  sinking  funds  as  may  be  necessary  to  meet  such 
loans  as  may  be  made  under  this  act. 

Sec.  5.  When  such  bridge  shall  be  completed  and  the  full 
cost  thereof,  including  the  damages  and  costs  mentioned  in 
section  three  of  this  act,  shall  have  been  ascertained,  said 
city  shall  file  a full  and  detailed  statement,  setting  forth  the 
amount  of  expenditure  made  by  it  pursuant  to  the  provisions 
of  this  act,  and  the  amount  of  interest  due  to  the  city  of 
Providence  for  money  advanced  under  this  act,  in  the  office 
of  the  clerk  of  the  appellate  division  of  the  supreme  court  of 
Providence  county,  and  upon  filing  said  statement  shall  also 
make  application  to  said  court  for  the  appointment  of  a com- 
mission of  apportionment,  to  consist  of  three  persons. 


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Sec.  6.  Upon  receiving  the  application  provided  for  in  the 
next  preceding  section,  said  court  shall  appoint  three  discreet 
and  disinterested  men  to  compose  said  commission  of  appor- 
tionment, who  shall,  after  due  notice  to  all  parties  interested 
and  a hearing  thereon,  determine,  decree  and  name  what 
cities  and  towns,  if  any,  will  be  specially  benefited  by  said 
new  bridge,  and  determine,  award  and  name  the  proportion 
of  the  total  amount  expended  by  the  said  city  under  this  act, 
including  the  damages  and  costs  mentioned  in  section  three 
of  this  act,  and  including  interest  as  provided  by  section  five 
of  this  act,  after  deducting  therefrom  the  amount  paid  by  the 
state,  as  hereinafter  provided,  which  each  of  the  said  cities 
and  towns  shall  pay.  The  report  of  the  said  commissioners 
shall  be  made  in  writing  and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  clerk 
of  the  appellate  division  of.  the  supreme  court  in  Providence, 
and  a copy  thereof  certified  by  the  said  clerk  shall  be  forth- 
with transmitted  to  the  several  cities  and  towns  named  in 
said  report ; and  said  court  at  the  term  thereof  next  after  the 
filing  of  said  report  shall,  unless  sufficient  cause  be  shown  to 
the  contrary,  upon  exceptions  filed  by  any  of  the  parties  in- 
terested, after  a trial  of  said  exceptions,  with  or  without  a 
jury  as  the  party  excepting  may  elect,  accept  and  affirm  said 
report  arid  enter  judgment  thereon,  or  shall  confirm  and  enter 
judgment  upon  said  report,  as  revised  and  amended  by  said 
court,  and  said  report  so  confirmed  shall  thereupon  be  bind- 
ing upon  the  several  parties  interested  therein.  The  ex- 
penses and  fees  of  the  commissioners  of  apportionment  al- 
lowed by  said  court  shall  be  paid  in  such  manner  and  by  such 
parties  as  the  said  court  shall  determine  and  award.  The 
said  judgments  against  parties  other  than  the  city  of  Provi- 
dence, shall  be  in  favor  of  the  said  city  of  Providence,  and 
executions  in  favor  of  said  city  on  said  several  judgments 
may  be  issued  and  collected  as  other  judgments  against 
towns. 

Sec.  7.  The  sum  of  forty  thousand  dollars  is  hereby  ap- 
propriated out  of  any  money  in  the  treasury  not  otherwise 
appropriated,  toward  the  construction  of  said  new  bridge  and 


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the  other  expenses  provided  to  be  incurred  by  this  act,  which 
said  sums  shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  said  city  when  he 
shall  furnish  to  the  state  auditor  the  certificate  of  the  city 
engineer  of  said  city,  that  the  piers  are  ready  for  the  placing 
thereon  of  the  superstructure  of  said  new  bridge. 

Sec.  8.  The  towns  against  which  judgment  may  be  en- 
tered as  hereinbefore  provided,  are  hereby  authorized  to 
hire  such  sums  of  money  as  may  be  necessary  to  satisfy  said 
judgments  or  executions,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions 
and  on  such  time  as  the  town  councils  thereof  shall  respec- 
tively determine. 

SEC.  9.  The  highways  heretofore  laid  out  by  said  city  and 
by  the  town  of  East  Providence  over  the  “Red  bridge,”  so 
called,  shall  continue  to  be  such  highways  over  the  bridge 
herein  provided  to  be  constructed  when  the  same  shall  have 
been  completed,  and  neither  said  city  or  town  shall  be  liable 
for  any  interruption  of  travel  caused  by  the  construction  of 
said  new  bridge  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Sec.  10.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of 
this  act  the  city  of  Providence  may  occupy  the  highway  in  the 
town  of  East  Providence  running  to  and  upon  the  present 
“Red  bridge,”  so  called,  and  may  enter  upon  and  occupy  any 
of  the  land  abutting  upon  the  same  if  necessary  or  desirable. 

Sec.  11.  The  city  of  Providence  shall  maintain  and  keep 
in  repair  the  bridge  herein  provided  to  be  built,  and  the  ex- 
pense of  such  maintenance  and  repair  shall  be  paid  by  the 
city  as  is  now  provided  in  the  care  of  the  present  “Red 
bridge,”  so  called. 

Sec.  12.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage,  and 
all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby 
repealed. 


CHAPTER  386. 

Passed  April  21,  1896. 

AN  ACT  TO  VALIDATE  CERTAIN  ACTS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF 
EAST  PROVIDENCE  EXEMPTING  THE  GROSVENOR 
DALE  COMPANY  FROM  TAXATION. 


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Section  1.  The  acts  and  resolutions  of  the  town  and  town 
council  of  East  Providence,  heretofore  made,  exempting 
from  taxation,  for  the  period  of  ten  years,  from  and  after 
the  eleventh  day  of  April,  1892,  the  following  described 
property  of  the  Grosvenor  Dale  Company  situated  in  the 
town  of  East  Providence,  to  wit : One  brick  building  to  be 
used  for  manufacturing  purposes  to  be  erected  on  lots  num- 
bered six,  seven,  eight,  and  nine  on  the  Grosvenor  plat,  and 
the  machinery,  stock,  furniture,  and  fixtures  to  be  kept  there- 
in, are  hereby  ratified,  and  the  said  property  of  the  Grosvenor 
Dale  Company  is  hereby  exempted  from  taxation  for  the 
period  of  ten  years  from  said  eleventh  day  of  April,  1892. 

Se:c.  2.  The  town  council  of  East  Providence  is  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  abate  all  taxes  assessed  for  the 
year  1895,  upon  the  property  of  the  Grosvenor  Dale  Com- 
pany exempted  from  taxation  under  the  provision  of  section 
one  of  this  act. 

Sex.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


CHAPTER  387. 

Passed  April  22,  1896. 

AN  ACT  TO  VALIDATE  CERTAIN  ACTS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF 
EAST  PROVIDENCE,  EXEMPTING  THE  AMERICAN 
ELECTRICAL  WORKS  FROM  TAXATION. 

Section  1.  The  acts  and  resolutions- of  the  town  and  town 
council  of  East  Providence,  heretofore  made,  exempting 
from  taxation  for  the  period  of  ten  years  from  and  after  the 
twenty-second  day  of  March,  1893,  the  following  described 
property  of  the  American  Electrical  Works,  situated  in  the 
town  of  East  Providence,  to  wit : All  buildings  thereafter 

erected  by  said  American  Electrical  Works  for  manufactur- 
ing purposes  upon  the  “Richmond  Paper  Mills  Estate,”  and 
all  tools,  machinery,  and  other  manufacturing  property  lo- 
cated by  it,  in,  on,  or  about  the  buildings  on  said  estate  since 


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said  date,  are  hereby  ratified,  and  the  said  property  of  the 
American  Electrical  Works  is  hereby  exempted  from  taxa- 
tion for  the  period  of  ten  years  from  said  twenty-second  day 
of  March,  1893. 

Sec.  2.  The  town  council  of  East  Providence  is  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  abate  all  taxes  assessed  for  the 
year  1895  upon  the  property  of  the  American  Electrical 
Works  exempted  from  taxation  under  the  provisions  of  Sec- 
tion 1 of  this  act. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


CHAPTER  388. 

Passed  May  13,  1896. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ELECT  ASSESSORS  OF  TAXES  TO  HOLD 
OFFICE  FOR  THREE  YEARS. 

Section  1.  The  assessors  of  taxes  for  the  town  of  East 
Providence  shall  be  three  in  number,  to  be  elected  by  the 
qualified  electors  of  said  town,  and  they  shall  be  divided  into 
three  classes,  whose  several  terms  of  office  shall  expire  at  the 
end  of  three  years  from  the  dates  of  their  respective  elec- 
tions; and  in  the  case  of  the  first  election  of  said  assessors 
of  taxes  by  said  electors  under  this  chapter,  which  shall  be 
held  at  the  annual  election  in  April  1897,  the  terms  of  office 
of  the  three  classes  shall  be  respectively  one  year,  two  years, 
and  three  years ; the  classes  and  their-  terms  of  office  to  be 
determined  by  the  qualified  electors  of  the  town.  As  the 
office  of  each  class  shall  become  vacant,  such  vacancy  or 
vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  the  town  at  its  annual  town  meet- 
ign  for  the  election  of  state  or  town  officers,  or  by  the  town 
council  at  its  next  meeting  thereafter.  In  case  of  a vacancy 
by  death,  resignation  or  otherwise  than  is  above  provided, 
such  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  the  town  council  until  the  next 
annual  town  meeting  for  state  or  town  officers,  when  it  shall 
be  for  the  unexpired  term  thereof  as  is  above  provided. 


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Sec.  2.  Such  assessors  of  taxes  so  chosen  by  the  town  of 
East  Providence  at  its  annual  election  in  April,  1897,  and 
thereafter  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  preceding 
section,  shall  have  all  the  powers  and  duties  and  be  subject 
to  all  the  liabilities  provided  for  assessors  of  taxes  in  the 
General  Laws  of  the  State. 

Se:c.  3.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed. 


CHAPTER  389. 

Passed  April  9,  1896. 


AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ASSESS  A TAX. 


CHAPTER  496. 

Passed  February  5,  1897. 

AN  ACT  DIVIDING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE 
INTO  DISTRICTS  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  VOTING. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows : 

Section  1.  That  the  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby 
divided  into  three  districts  for  the  purpose  of  balloting  for 
United  States,  state,  town,  and  district  officers,  to  be  desig- 
nated and  bounded  as  follows,  viz.;  All  that  part  of  the 
town  lying  north  of  a line  beginning  at  the  east  abutment  of 
the  Red  bridge  in  said  town  and  running  easterly  through 
the  centre  of  Waterman  avenue  to  Massasoit  avenue;  thence 
through  the  centre  of  said  Massasoit  avenue  to  Broadway; 
thence  northerly  through  the  centre  of  Broadway  to  Centre 
street ; thence  easterly  through  the  centre  of  Centre  street  to 
Pawtucket  avenue ; thence  northerly  through  the  centre  of 
Pawtucket  avenue  to  Ten  Mile  river ; thence  easterly  bound- 


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ing  northerly  on  Ten  Mile  river  to  the  Massachusetts  bound- 
ary, shall  be  called  district  No.  2,  and  the  ballots  of  the  elec- 
tors residing  in  said  district  shall  be  cast  at  the  town  house  at 
East  Providence  Centre.  That  part  of  the  town  lying  south 
of  said  line  beginning  at  east  abutment  of  Red  Bridge  and 
north  of  a line  beginning  at  the  Silver  Spring  wharf  in  said 
town  and  running  easterly  through  the  centre  of  the  road 
from  Silver  Spring  to  the  north  and  south  road  near  the  resi- 
dence of  James  H.  Armington,  and  thence  running  east  to 
the  boundary  line  between  the  states  of  Rhode  Island  and 
Massachusetts,  shall  be  called  district  No.  1,  and  the  ballots 
of  the  electors  residing  in  said  district  shall  be  cast  at  such 
convenient  place  in  said  district  as  may  be  designated  there- 
for by  the  town  council.  All  that  part  of  said  town  lying 
south  of  said  line  running  easterly  from  said  Silver  Spring 
wharf  as  aforesaid  shall  be  called  district  No.  3,  and  the  bal- 
lots of  the  electors  residing  in  said  district  shall  be  cast  at 
such  convenient  place  in  said  district  as  may  be  designated 
therefor  by  the  town  council. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  go  into  effect  immediately. 


CHAPTER  497. 


Passed  May  14,  1897. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ISSUE  BONDS. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  au- 
thorized and  empowered  to'  issue  bonds  under  its  corporate 
name  and  seal,  in  addition  to  the  bonds  heretofore  author- 
ized, to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Said 
bonds  shall  be  of  a denomination  not  less  than  one  hundred 


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nor  more  than  five  thousand  dollars  each,  shall  bear  interest 
at  a rate  not  exceeding  four  per  centum  per  annum,  payable 
semi-annually,  and  the  principal  and  interest  thereof  shall  be 
payable  in  gold  coin  of  the  United  States  of  America  of  the 
present  standard  of  weight  and  fineness.  Said  bonds  shall 
be  divided  into  two  classes,  whereof  the  first  shall  consist  of 
bonds  to  the  amount  of  fifty  thousand  dollars,  and  become 
due  and  payable  in  twenty-five  years  from  the  date  thereof ; 
and  the  second  class  shall  consist  of  bonds  to  the  amount  of 
fifty  thousand  dollars,  payable  in  fifty  years  from  their  date. 
Said  bonds  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  town,  in  the  same 
manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  other  debts  lawfully  con- 
tracted by  said  town. 

Se)C.  2.  The  said  bonds  shall  be  issued  and  sold  by  the 
town  council  of  said  town,  in  such  manner  and  at  such  times 
as  the  said  town  council  may  authorize  and  direct.  The  pro- 
ceeds arising  from  the  sale  thereof  shall  be  delivered  to  the 
town  treasurer,  and  shall  be  applied,  with  the  exception  of 
the  premium  derived  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds,  to  the  pay- 
ment of  the  present  and  future  indebtedness  of  said  town, 
but  no  purchaser  of  said  bonds  shall  be  in  anyway  bound  to 
see  to  the  proper  application  of  the  proceeds  thereof. 

Sec.  3.  The  bonds  hereby  authorized  shall  be  signed  by  the 
town  treasurer  and  countersigned  by  the  town  clerk. 

Sec.  4.  Said  town  shall  annually  appropriate  until  said 
bonds  are  paid  in  full,  besides  a sum  sufficient  to  pay  the  in- 
terest upon  the  bonds  hereby  authorized,  a sum  to  be  placed  as 
a sinking  fund  sufficient  for  the  redemption  of  the  bonds 
hereby  authorized,  when  and  as  the  same  become  due  and 
payable,  and  all  premiums  arising  from  the  sale  of  said 
bonds  shall  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  said  sinking  fund. 

Sec.  5.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are 
hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  6.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


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CHAPTER  512. 

Passed  May  27,  1897. 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  INCUR  A DEBT  IN  EXCESS  OF  THREE  PER 
CENT.  OF  THE  TAXABLE  PROPERTY. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  given 
authority  'o  incur  a debt  not  in  excess  of  four  and  one-half 
per  cent,  of  the  taxable  property  of  said  town. 

Sec.  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


CHAPTER  527. 

Passed  February  24,  1898. 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ASSESS  A TAX. 


CHAPTER  693. 


Passed  April  6,  1899. 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ASSESS  A TAX. 


CHAPTER  732. 


Passed  February  9,  1900. 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ASSESS  A TAX. 


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CHAPTER  884. 


Passed  March  20,  1901. 

AN  ACT  FIXING  THE  TIME  FOR  THE  ELECTION  OF 
TOWN  OFFICERS  IN  THE  TOWNS  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE AND  CRANSTON. 


It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  annual  election  of  town  officers  by  the 
people  in  the  towns  of  East  Providence  and  Cranston  shall  be 
held  on  the  Tuesday  next  after  the  first  Monday  in  Novem- 
ber, in  the  same  manner  as  is  now  provided  by  law  for  the 
respective  towns,  except  4s  provided  in  this  act. 

Sec.  2.  In  the  election  of  members  of  the  town  council, 
assessors  of  taxes,  and  members  of  the  school  committee, 
where  more  than  one  of  such  officers  are  to  be  elected  at  one 
time,  the  names  shall  be  numbered  upon  the  ballots,  and  in 
nominating  them  and  in  counting  the  ballots  cast  for  them  the 
places  numbered  shall  be  considered  as  separate  places. 

Sec.  3.  The  officers  of  said  towns  who  were  elected  by  the 
people  in  the  year  1900  for  terms  of  one  year,  or  their 
successors  in  office,  are  hereby  continued  in  office  until  the 
Tuesday  next  after  the  first  Monday  in  November,  A.  D. 
1901,  and  thereafter  until  their  successors  are  elected  and 
qualified  with  all  the  powers  and  duties  and  subject  to  all  the 
limitations  and  liabilities  provided  by  law  for  like  officers 
elected  by  the  people,  and  shall  receive  a pro  rata  compen- 
sation for  their  increased  term  of  service,  based  upon  their 
compensation  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  4.  Upon  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  office  of  any 
existing  officer  of  either  of  said  towns  who  was  elected  by 
the  people  for  a term  of  more  than  one  year,  or  of  his  succes- 
sor in  said  office  elected  to  fill  a vacancy,  the  town  council  of 
such  town  shall  elect  some  person  to  fill  such  office  until  the 
next  annual  election  and  until  his  successor  is  elected  and 
qualified ; and  the  person  so  elected  shall  have  all  the  powers 
and  duties  of,  and  be  subject  to  all  the  limitations  provided 


Annual  election 
of  town  officers 
in  East  Provi- 
denc  and  Crans- 
ton, when  to  be 
held. 


Names  of  can- 
didates how  to 
be  placed  on 
ballot. 


Continuation 
in  office  of  offi- 
cers of  annual 
elections. 


Vacancies  in  of- 
fice of  officers 
elected  for  more 
than  one  year, 
how  filled. 


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ACTS  OF  THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY 


Certain  officers 
when  to  be 
elected. 


Town  author- 
ized to  assess  a 
tax  not  to  ex- 
ceed $1.40  on 
each  $100  of 
property. 


by  law  for,  like  officers  elected  by  the  people.  The  terms  of 
office  of  all  officers  hereafter  elected  by  the  people  in  said 
towns  shall  date  from  the  Tuesday  next  after  the  first  Mon- 
day in  November. 

Sec.  5.  In  said  towns  the  officers  required  to  be  elected  by 
the  town  councils  thereof  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
of  section  13  of  Chapter  39  of  the  General  Laws,  or  of  any 
special  law,  shall  be  elected  at  the  same  dates  as  if  this  act 
had  not  been  passed,  with  like  power  of  postponement  as 
provided  therein. 

Sec.  6.  All  provisions  of  any  special  laws  in  relation  to 
said  towns,  or  any  of  them,  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby 
repealed,  and  this  act  shall  take  effeGt  upon  its  passage. 


CHAPTER  885: 

Passed  February  15,  1901. 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ASSESS  A TAX. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs: 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  au- 
thorized and  empowered  for  the  year  1901  to  assess  a tax 
of  not  to  exceed  one  dollar  and  forty  cents  on  each  one  hun- 
dred dollars  valuation  of  the  ratable  property  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  said  town,  for  the  purposes  not  excepted  in  section 
22  of  Chapter  36  of  the  General  Laws. 

SEC.  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


CHAPTER  886. 

Passed  February  7,  1901. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  COUNCIL  OF  THE 
TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  TO  APPOINT  AN  IN- 
SPECTOR OF  PLUMBING  AND  DRAINAGE  AND  MAKE 
ORDINANCES  REGULATING  THE  PLUMBING  AND 
DRAINAGE  OF  BUILDINGS  WITHIN  SAID  TOWN. 


REEATING  TO  THE  TOWN. 


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It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  to.wn  council  of  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence is  hereby  authorized  to  appoint  an  inspector  of  plumb- 
ing and  drainage,  define  his  duties  and  fix  the  compensation 
therefor. 

Sec.  2.  The  town  council  of  said  town  is  hereby  author- 
ized to  issue  licenses  to  plumbers  and  drainlayers,  define 
their  duties,  and  require  them  to  give  bond  with  surety  or 
sureties  in  such  amount  as  the  council  may  by  ordinance  pro- 
vide for  the  faithful  performance  of  said  duties. 

Sec.  3.  The  town  council  of  said  town  may  make  such 
ordinances,  rules,  and  regulations  respecting  the  drainage  and 
plumbing  of  all  buildings  hereafter  erected  in  said  town  as 
the  town  council  may  deem  necessary  for  the  preservation  of 
public  health,  and  may  provide  by  ordinance  that  no  building 
shall  be  erected  unless  the  plans  of  the  drainage  and  plumb- 
ing thereof  shall  conform  to  such  ordinances,  rules,  and  regu- 
lations, be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  town  clerk,  and  be  ap- 
proved in  writing  by  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drain- 
age ; and  said  town  council  may  further  provide  for  the  in- 
spection of  all  plumbing  and  drainage  in  said  town  and  may 
affix  penalties,  for  the  violation  of  any  rule  or  regulation 
made  in  accordance  with  this  act,  of  not  more  than  twenty 
dollars. 

Sec.  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


CHAPTER  1026. 

Passed  April  3,  1902. 

AN  ACT  FIXING  THE  DATE  OF  THE  ANNUAL  TOWN 
MEETING  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  AND 
CHANGING  THE  DATE  OF  THE  ELECTION  OF  CER- 
TAIN TOWN  OFFICERS  ELECTED  BY  THE  TOWN 
COUNCIL  THEREOF. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 


Town  council 
authorized  to 
appoint  an  in- 
spector of 
plumbing  and 
drainage. 


May  license 
plumbers  and 
drain-layers, 
etc. 


May  make  or- 
dinances rela- 
tive to  drain- 
age and  plumb- 
ing. 


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acts  OF  the:  general  assembly 


Annual  town 
meeting,  when 
to  be  held. 


Certain  officers 
to  hold  office 
until  when. 


Town  divided 
into  five  voting 
districts. 


Dist.  No.  2. 


Section  1.  The  annual  town  meeting  of  the  town  of  East 
Providence  for  the  transaction  of  the  general  business  of  the 
town  shall  be  held  on  the  second  Monday  in  November  in 
each  year,  at  ten  o’clock  in  the  forenoon. 

SEC.  2.  The  provisions  of  section  five  of  Chapter  884  of 
the  Public  Laws  passed  February  15,  A.  D.  1901,  shall  not 
apply  to  the  town  of  East  Providence  after  this  act  takes 
effect,  and  all  officers  of  said  town  hereafter  elected  by  the 
town  council  thereof,  by  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  said  sec- 
tion, shall  hold  their  offices  only  until  the  first  meeting  of  the 
town  council  of  said  town  elected  on  the  fourth  day  of  No- 
vember, A.  D.  1902,  and  thereafter  until  their  successors  are 
elected  and  qualified. 

Sec.  3.  All  provisions  of  the  General  Laws  and  Public 
Laws,  and  of  .any  special  laws,  inconsistent  herewith  are 
hereby  repealed  in  so  far  as  they  apply  to  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  upon  the  third  day 
of  November,  A.  D.  1902. 


CHAPTER'  1124. 

Passed  April  16,  1903. 

AN  ACT  DIVIDING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE 
INTO  DISTRICTS  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  VOTING. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs: 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby 
divided  into  five  districts  for  the  purpose  of  balloting  for 
United  States,  State,  town,  and  district  officers. 

SEC.  2.  All  that  part  of  said  town  lying  north  of  a line 
beginning  at  the  east  abutment  of  the  Red  bridge  in  said 
town  and  running  easterly  through  the  centre  of  Waterman 
avenue  to  Massasoit  avenue ; thence  through  the  centre  of 
said  Massasoit  avenue  to  North  Broadway;  thence  northerly 
through  the  centre  of  North  Broadway  to  Centre  street; 


RELATING  TO  THE)  TOWN. 


51 


thence  easterly  through  the  centre  of  Centre  street  to  Paw- 
tucket avenue ; thence  northerly  through  the  centre  of  Paw- 
tucket avenue  to  Ten  Mile  river ; thence  easterly  bounding 
northerly  on  Ten  Mile  river  to  the  Massachusetts  boundary, 
shall  constitute  voting  district  number  two. 

Se;c.  3.  All  that  part  of  said  town  lying  south  of  a line  be-  Dist.  No.  3. 
ginning  at  the  Silver  Spring  wharf  in  said  town  and  running 
easterly  through  the  centre  of  the  road  from  Silver  Spring 
to  the  north  and  south  road  near  the  residence  of  James  H. 

Armington,  and  thence  running  east  to  the  boundary  line  be- 
tween the  states  of  Rhode  Island  and  Massachusetts,  shall 
constitute  voting  district  number  three. 

Se)c.  4.  All  that  part  of  said  town  lying  south  of  the  Dist.  No.  1. 
southerly  line  of  voting  district  number  two  in  said  town,  and 
north  of  a line  beginning  at  the  westerly  end  of  Taunton  ave- 
nue and  running  easterly  through  the  centre  thereof  to  Gros- 
venor  avenue ; thence  through  the  centre  of  Grosvenor  ave- 
nue and  Howard  street  to  the  easterly  end  of  Howard  street, 
and  in  the  same  course  to  the  state  line,  shall  constitute  vot- 
ing district  number  one. 

Se )c.  5.  All  that  part  of  said  town  enclosed  by  said  line  Dist.  No.  4. 
running  from  the  westerly  end  of  Taunton  avenue  to  the 
easterly  end  of  Howard  street,  and  continuing  thence  south- 
erly at  right  angles  to  Howard  street  to  the  centre  of  Warren 
avenue;  thence  westerly  through  the  centre  of  Warren  ave- 
nue to  South  Broadway ; thence  through  the  centre  of  South 
Broadway  to  the  brook  which  passes  under  the  highway  at 
the  David  Humphrey  place;  thence  through  the  centre  of 
said  brook  to  the  salt  water  at  Bowers’  cove ; and  thence  with 
the  shore  line  to  the  place  of  beginning,  shall  constitute  dis- 
trict number  four. 

Se)c.  6.  All  that  part  of  said  town  lying  south  of  voting  Dist  No  5 
district  number  one,  east  of  voting  district  number  four,  and 
north  of  voting  district  number  three,  shall  constitute  voting 
district  number  five. 

Se;c.  7.  The  ballots  of  the  electors  residing  in  each  of  said 
five  voting  districts  shall  be  cast  at  such  place  in  the  district 


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ACTS  OF  THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY 


where  they  reside  as  shall  be  from  time  to  time  designated 
and  provided  by  the  town  council  of  said  town,  and  the  places 
so  designated  shall  continue  to  be  used  for  that  purpose  until 
further  action  by  the  town  council.  The  polls  in  all  of  said 
voting  districts  shall  be  kept  open  from  nine  o’clock  in  the 
forenoon  until  eight  o’clock  in  the  evening,  and  no  longer. 

SEC.  8.  The  office  of  moderator  and  clerk  of  voting  dis- 
trict number  one  of  said  town,  as  the  same  is  constituted  at 
the  time  of  the  passage  of  this'  act,  are  hereby  declared 
vacant,  and  the  town  council  of  said  town  shall  appoint  some 
persons  to  serve  as  moderator  and  clerk  in  the  voting  dis- 
tricts numbers  one,  four,  and  five  hereby  created,  at  all  elec- 
tions held  in  said  town  until  and  at  the  annual  election 
of  state  and  town  officers  in  November,  A.  D.  1903,  and  at 
such  annual  election  and  at  the  annual  election  in  each  year 
thereafter  a moderator  and  clerk  shall  be  elected  in  each 
voting  district  of  said  town  by  the  electors  thereof. 

Sec.  9.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its 
passage. 


CHAPTER  1135. 


Passed  April  16,  1903. 

AN  ACT  IN  RELATION  TO  SIDEWALKS  IN  THE  TOWNS 
OF  WESTERLY  AND  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 


It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs: 


Town  councils 
of  the  towns  of 
Westerly  and 
East  Providence 
authorized  to 
make  ordinances 
relative  to  side- 
walks. 


Section  1.  The  town  councils  of  the  towns  of  Westerly 
and  East  Providence  shall  each  have  the  power  to  make  ordi- 
nances and  regulations  relative  to  sidewalks  in  the  streets 
and  highways  of  their  respective  towns,  to  the  ordering  of 
the  same  to  be  made,  altered,  or  repaired,  to  the  use,  mainte- 
nance, care,  and  cleaning  of  the  same,  to  removing  ice  and 
snow  therefrom,  to  the  removal  of  posts,  steps,  and  other 
obstructions  therein,  and  to  the  maintenance  and  removal  of 


relating  to  the:  town. 


53 


awnings,  signs,  and  other  structures  projecting  over  the 
same:  Provided,  that  such  ordinances  and  regulations  shall 
not  be  contrary  to  the  laws  of  this  state. 

Sec.  2.  Said  town  councils  may  prescribe  and  impose 
penalties  for  the  violation  of  such  ordinances  and  regula- 
tions, not  exceeding  in  amount  twenty  dollars. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


■ CHAPTER  1178. 

Passed  April  12,  1904. 

AN  ACT  TO  PREVENT  POLLUTION  OF  THE  SOURCES  OF 
THE  WATER  SUPPLY  OF  THE  CITIES  OF  PAWTUCK- 
ET AND  WOONSOCKET  AND  THE  TOWNS  OF  BRIS- 
TOL AND  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs: 

Section  1.  Section  1 of  Chapter  491  of  the  Public  Laws 
is  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

“Section  1.  No  person  shall  throw  or  discharge,  or  suf- 
fer to  be  discharged  from  land  owned,  occupied,  or  con- 
trolled by  him,  into  any  stream,  pond,  or  reservoir  used  as 
a source  of  water  supply  by  the  city  of  Woonsocket,  the  city 
of  Pawtucket,  the  city  of  Newport,  the  town  of  Bristol,  the 
town  of  Warren,  the  town  of  East  Providence,  the  town  of 
Narragansett,  the  town  of  Jamestown,  the  East  Greenwich 
Fire  District,  or  by  any  water  company  supplying  water  for 
domestic  use  in  any  of  said  cities  or  towns,  or  into-  any  trib- 
utary or  feeder  of  any  such  stream,  pond,  or  reservoir,  any 
sewerage,  drainage,  refuse  or  noxious  or  polluting  matter  of 
such  nature  as  will  corrupt  or  impair  the  quality  of  the 
waters  of  said  stream,  pond,  or  reservoir,  or  render  the  same 
injurious  to  health,  which  water  shall  be  of  the  recognized 
standard  of  purity  to  be  determined  by  the  state  board  of 
health  or  other  recognized  authority.  But  the  provisions  of 
this  section  shall  not  interefere  with  or  prevent  the  enriching 


Penalty  for  pol- 
luting the  water 
supply  of  cer 
tain  cities  and 
towns. 


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ACTS  OF  TH^  GKNKRAI,  ASSEMBLY 


Powers  and 
duties  of  the 
state  board  of 
health  under 
this  act. 


Same  subject. 


of  land  for  agricultural  purposes  by  the  owner  or  occupant 
thereof,  if  no  human  excrement  is  used  thereon.  Any  per- 
son violating  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  punished 
for  each  offence  by  a fine  of  fifty  dollars  or  by  imprisonment 
for  not  to  exceed  thirty  days  or  by  both  such  fine  and  im- 
prisonment.” 

Skc.  2.  Section  2 of  Chapter  491  is  hereby  amended  so 
as  to  read  as  follows : 

‘'Skc.  2.  The  state  board  of  health  or  the  secretary  of 
said  board,  when  satisfied  that  any  sewerage,  drainage,  or 
refuse  or  polluting  matter  exists  in  a locality  such  that  there 
is  danger  that  said  sewerage,  drainage,  or  refuse  or  polluting 
matter  may  corrupt  or  impair  the  quality  of  said  waters  or 
render  them  injurious  to  health,  may  order  the  owner  or 
occupant  of  the  premises  where  said  sewerage,  drainage,  or 
refuse  or  polluting  matter  exists  to  remove  the  same  from 
said  premises  within  such  time  after  the  serving  of  the  no- 
tice prescribed  in  the  next  succeeding  section  as  said  board 
or  secretary  may  designate ; and  if  the  owner  or  occupant 
neglects  or  refuses  so  to  do  he  shall  be  fined  twenty  dollars 
for  each  day  during  which  he  permits  said  sewerage,  drain- 
age, or  refuse  or  polluting  matter  to  remain  upon  said  prem- 
ises after  the  time  prescribed  for  the  removal  thereof.” 

Se:c.  3.  Section  3 of  Chapter  491  is  hereby  amended  so  as 
to  read  as  follows : 

“SKC.  3.  Such  notice  shall  be  in  writing,  signed  by  the 
secretary  of  the  state  board  of  health  or  the  person  perform- 
ing the  duties  of  that  official,  and  shall  be  served  by  any 
sheriff,  deputy  sheriff  or  constable  by  reading  the  same  in  the 
presence  or  hearing  of  the  owner,  occupant,  or  his  authorized 
agent,  or  by  leaving  a copy  of  the  same  in  the  hands  or  pos- 
session of,  or  at  the  last  and  usual  place  of  abode  of,  said 
owner,  occupant,  or  agent  if  within  this  state  : Provided,  hozv- 
ever,  that  if  said  owner,  occupant,  or  agent  be  a corporation 
incorporated  in  this  state,  said  notice  shall  be  served  by  leav- 
ing a copy  thereof  at  the  last  and  usual  place  of  abode  of  the 
president  or  person  performing  the  duties  of  president  of 


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55 


said  corporation.  But  if  said  premises  are  unoccupied,  or 
the  residence  of  the  owner  is  unknown  or  without  this  state, 
or  if  the  said  owner  is  a corporation  incorporated  without 
this  state,  the  notice  may  be  served  by  posting  a copy  of  the 
same  on  the  premises  and  by  advertising  the  same  in  some 
newspaper  published  in  Providence  county  in  such  manner 
and  for  such  length  of  time  as  the  state  board  of  health  or 
the  secretary  thereof  may  determine.” 

SEC.  4.  Section  4 of  Chapter  491  is  hereby  amended  so 
as  to  read  as  follows : 

“Sec.  4.  The  secretary  of  the  state  board  of  health,  when 
so  directed  by  said  board,  shall  prosecute  for  all  violations  of 
this  chapter  and  shall  not  be  required  to  give  surety  for  costs 
upon  complaints  made  by  him;  but  the  cities  ofWoonsocket 
and  Pawtucket  and  the  towns  of  Bristol  and  East  Provi- 
dence shall  be  directly  liable  to  the  state  for  the  costs  incurred 
in  the  prosecution  for  violation  of  this  chapter  in  their 
respective  cases.” 

Sec.  5.  Section  5 of  Chapter  491  is  hereby  amended  so  as 
to  read  as  follows : 

“Sec.  5.  The  appellate  division  of  the  supreme  court, 
upon  the  application  of  the  mayors  of  said  cities  or  the  presi- 
dents of  the  town  councils  of  said  towns,  or  upon  the  appli- 
cation of  the  secretary  of  the  state  board  of  health,  may 
issue  an  injunction  to  enforce  the  orders  of  the  state  board 
of  health,  or  the  secretary  thereof,  provided  for  in  this 
chapter.” 

Sec.  6.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its 
passage. 


CHAPTER  1189. 

Passed  February  18,  1904. 

AN  ACT  CONCERNING  NOTICE  BY  ADVERTISEMENT  IN 
THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE,  IN  AMENDMENT 


Same  subject. 


Injunction  may 
issue,  when. 


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ACTS  OP  THE)  GENERA!,  ASSEMBLY 


OF  SECTION  6 OF  CHAPTER  46,  SECTION  7 OF  CHAP- 
TER 47,  SECTIONS  10  AND  20  OF  CHAPTER  48,  SEC- 
TION 1 OF  CHAPTER  49,  SECTION  4 OF  CHAPTER  210, 
SECTIONS  11  AND  16  OF  CHAPTER  211,  AND  SECTION 
55  OF  CHAPTER  285  OF  THE  GENERAL  LAWS  AND 
ANY  AMENDMENTS  OR  ADDITIONS.  THERETO. 


Of  notice  by 
advertisement. 


It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  provision  for  notice  by  advertisement  in 
some  newspaper  published  in  the  town,  if  any  there  be,  re- 
quired by  section  G of  Chapter  46,  section  7 of  Chapter  47, 
sections  10  and  20  of  Chapter  48,  section  2 of  Chapter  102, 
and  section  4 of  Chapter  210  of  the  General  Taws,  and  any 
amendments  or  additions  thereto,  shall  not  apply  to  the  town 
of  East  Providence,  but  in  all  such  cases  notice  by  advertise- 
ment in  some  newspaper  published  in  the  county  of  Provi- 
dence shall  be  a sufficient  compliance  therewith. 

Sec.  2.  In  all  matters  in  said  town  of  East  Providence 
like  notice  by  advertisement  in  some  newspaper  published  in 
the  county  of  Providence  shall  be  a sufficient  compliance  with 
the  provision  for  notice  by  advertisement  of  section  1 of 
Chapter  49,  sections  11  and  16  of  Chapter  211,  and  section 
55  of  Chapter  285  of  the  General  Laws,  and  any  amendment 
or  addition  thereto. 

SEC.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  pas- 
sage. 


CHAPTER  1204. 

Passed  November  16,  1904. 

AN  ACT  APPOINTING  METROPOLITAN  PARK  COMMIS- 
SIONERS. 


CHAPTER  1238. 

Passed  May  9,  1905. 


AN  ACT  TO  CONTINUE  THE  METROPOLITAN  PARK  COM- 
MISSIONERS. 


RELATING  TO  THE)  TOWN. 


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CHAPTER  1275. 

Passed  April  27,  1905. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ESTABLISH  A PERMANENT  POLICE 
FORCE, 

Jl  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs: 

Section  1.  The  town  council  of  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence may  appoint  at  any  regular  meeting  after  the  passage 
of  this  act  so  many  and  such  police  officers,  including  the 
chief  of  police  and  one  or  more  sergeants  of  police,  for  ser- 
vice in  said  town  as  by  ordinance  the  said  council  may  from 
time  to  time  determine,  which  said  officers  shall  hold  their 
respective  offices  until  vacated  by  death  or  resignation,  except 
as  hereinafter  provided ; and  the  president  of  said  council 
may  at  any  time  suspend  any  such  officer  or  officers  from  his 
or  their  office  or  offices  until  the  next  regular  meeting  of 
said  council,  at  which  meeting  he  shall  report  any  and  all 
such  suspensions,  with  his  reasons  therefor,  and  the  said 
council  may  continue  such  suspension  or  suspensions  until 
the  next  regular  meeting  following:  Provided,  however,  that 
any  one  or  more  .of  the  police  officers  so  appointed,  including 
the  chief  of  police  and  sergeant  or  sergeants  of  police,  shall 
be  subject  to  removal  from  office  by  said  council,  at  any 
regular  meeting  thereof,  for  misconduct  or  incapacity  o f such 
a character  as  the  said  council  may  deem  a disqualification 
for  said  office ; and  all  such  removals  shall  be  by  the  said 
council  upon  charges  made  in  writing,  if  requested  by  such 
officer  or  officers,  and  of  which  the  officer  or  officers  com- 
plained of  shall  have  notice  and  opportunity  at  the  time  ap- 
pointed to  be  heard  thereon  ; provided,  further,  hozvever,  that 
nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  construed  to  apply  to  any 
police  officer  or  constable  other  than  the  members  of  the 
regular  paid  police  department  of  said  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence. 

Sec.  2.  Upon  the  appointment  and  qualification  of  a 


Town  author- 
ized to  establish 
a permanent 
police  force. 


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police  force  in  the  town  of  East  Providence  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  the  term  of  office  of  the  offi- 
cers composing  the  existing  police  force  in  that  town  shall 
terminate. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


CHAPTER  1387. 

Passed  April  6,  1906. 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  INCUR  A DEBT  IN  EXCESS  OF  THREE  PER 
CENT.  OF  THE  TAXABLE  PROPERTY.  ’ 


It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs: 


Town  author- 
ized to  incur  a 
debt  not  in  ex- 
cess of  5^  per 
cent,  of  its  tax- 
able property. 


Section  ] . The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  given 
authority  to  incur  a debt  not  in  excess  of  five  and  one  half 
per  cent,  of  the  taxable  property  of  said  town,  subject  to  the 
exceptions  and  deductions  provided  in  section  21  of  Chapter 
36  of  the  General  Laws,  this  authorization  to  apply  to  present 
and  future  indebtedness. 

Sec.  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


CHAPTER  1466. 

Passed  April  23,  1907. 

AN  ACT  DEFINING  THE  POWERS  AND  DUTIES  OF  THE 
METROPOLITAN  PARK  COMMISSIONERS  AND  PRO- 
VIDING FOR  THE  ACQUIRING  OF  LAND  AND  THE  IM- 
PROVEMENT AND  MAINTENANCE  OF  PUBLIC  LANDS 
WITHIN  THE  METROPOLITAN  PARK  DISTRICT  OF 
PROVIDENCE  PLANTATIONS. 


RELATING  TO  THE)  TOWN. 


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CHAPTER  1497. 

Passed  April  17,  1907. 

AN  ACT  TO  ENABLE  THE  TOWN  COUNCIL  OF  EAST 
PROVIDENCE  TO  FILL  VACANCIES  IN  TOWN  OF- 
FICES. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs : 

Se)ction  1.  Whenever  any  vacancy  shall  occur  in  any 
of  the  town  offices  of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  from 
any  cause  whatsoever,  whether- said  offices  are  filled  by  the 
electors  or  by  the  town  council  of  said  town,  the  town  council 
may  fill  every  such  vacancy,  and  the  person  so  elected  by  the 
town  council  shall  hold  said  office  until  the  time  of  the  an- 
nual election  of  such  officer,  and  until  his  successor  is  duly 
elected  and  qualified. 

Se)c.  2.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith  are 
hereby  repealed,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


CHAPTER  1498. 

Passed  April  17,  1907. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ISSUE  BONDS. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs: 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  issue  bonds  under  its  corporate 
name  and  seal,  in  addition  to  the  bonds  heretofore  author- 
ized, to  the  amount  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Said 
bonds  shall  be  of  a denomination  not  less  than  one  thousand 
nor  more  than  five  thousand  dollars  each,  shall  bear  inter- 
est at  a rate  not  exceeding  four  per  centum  per  annum, 
payable  semi-annually,  and  the  principal  and  interest  thereof 
shall  be  payable  in  gold  coin  of  the  United  States  of  Amer- 
ica of  the  present  standard  of  weight  and  fineness.  Said 


Vacancies  in 
town  offices 
how  to  be 
filled. 


Town  author- 
ized to  issue 
$200,000  of  bonds 
for  the  payment 
of  its  present 
and  future  in- 
debtedness. 


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bonds  shall  become  due  and  payable  in  fifty  years  from  the 
date  of  their  issue,  and  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  town 
in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  other  debts 
lawfully  contracted  by  said  town. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  bonds  shall  be  issued  and  sold  by  the 
town  council  of  said  town  at  such  times,  in  such  amounts, 
and  in  such  manner  as  the  said  town  council  may  authorize 
and  direct,  but  not  to  exceed  in  amount  the  sum  of  two  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars,  in  addition  to  the  bonds  heretofore 
authorized.  The  proceeds  arising  from  the  sale  thereof  shall 
be  delivered  to  the  town  treasurer,  and  shall  be  applied,  with 
the  exception  of  the  premiums  derived  from  the  sale  of  said 
bonds,  to  the  payment  of  the  present  and  future  indebted- 
ness of  said  town,  but  no  purchaser  of  said  bonds  shall  be 
in  any  way  bound  to  see  to  the  proper  application  of  the  pro- 
ceeds thereof. 

SEC.  3.  The  bonds  hereby  authorized  shall  be  signed  by 
the  town  treasurer  and  countersigned  by  the  town  clerk  of 
said  town. 

Sec.  4.  Said  town  shall  annually  appropriate,  until  said 
bonds  are  paid  in  full,  a sum  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest 
upon  the  bonds  issued  under  the  authority  of  this  act,  a sum 
to  be  placed  as  a sinking  fund  sufficient  for  the  redemption 
of  the  bonds  issued  under  the  authority  of  this  act,  when  and 
as  the  same  become  due  and  payable,  and  all  premiums  aris- 
ing from  the  sale  of  said  bonds  shall  be  placed  to  the  credit 
of  said  sinking  fund. 

Sec.  5.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


CHAPTER  1631. 

Passed  April  22,  1908. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ISSUE  BONDS  FOR  SCHOOL  PURPOSES. 


relating  to  the:  town. 


6i 


It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  issue  bonds  under  its  corporate 
name  and  seal,  in  addition  to  the  bonds  heretofore  author- 
ized, to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Said 
bonds  shall  be  of  a denomination  of  not  less  than  one 
thousand  nor  more  than  five  thousand  dollars  each,  shall  bear 
interest  at  a rate  not  exceeding  five  per  centum  per  annum, 
payable  semi-annually,  and  the  principal  and  interest  thereof 
shall  be  payable  in  gold  coin  of  the  United  States  of  Amer- 
ica of  the  present  standard  of  weight  and  fineness.  Said 
bonds  shall  become  due  and  payable  in  forty  years  from  the 
date  of  their  issue,  and  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  town 
in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  other  debts 
lawfully  contracted  by  said  town. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  bonds  shall  be  issued  and  sold  by  the 
town  council  of  said  town  at  such  times,  in  such  amounts, 
and  in  such  manner  as  the  said  town  council  may  authorize 
and  direct,  but  not  to  exceed  in  amount  the  sum  of  one  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars,  in  addition  to  the  bonds  heretofore 
authorized.  The  proceeds  arising  from  the  sale  thereof  shall 
be  delivered  to  the  town  treasurer,  and  shall  be  applied,  with 
the  exception  of  the  premiums  derived  from  the  sale  of  said 
bonds,  to  the  purchase  of  a site  for  and  the  erection  and 
equipment  of  a high  school  building  and  to  the  purchase  of 
sites  for  and  the  erection  and  equipment  of  such  other  school 
buildings  as  may  be  needed  in  said  town ; but  no  purchaser 
of  said  bonds  shall  be  in  any  way  bound  to  see  to  the  proper 
application  of  the  proceeds  thereof. 

Sec.  3.  The  bonds  hereby  authorized  shall  be  signed  by 
the  town  treasurer  and  countersigned  by  the  town  clerk  of 
said  town. 

Sec.  4.  Said  town  shall  annually  appropriate,  until  said 
bonds  are  paid  in  full,  a sum  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest 
upon  the  bonds  issued  under  the  authority  of  this  act,  a sum 
to  be  placed  as  a sinking  fund  sufficient  for  the  redemption 
of  the  bonds  issued  under  the  authority  of  this  act,  when  and 


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as  the  same  become  due  and  payable,  and  all  premiums  aris- 
ing from  the  sale  of  said  bonds  shall  be  placed  to  the  credit 
of  said  sinking  fund,  and  all  obligations  of  said  town  which 
may  be  created  under  the  authority  of  this  act  shall  be  ex- 
cepted from  the  operation  of  section  21,  Chapter  36,  of  the 
General  Laws. 

Sec.  5 No  bonds  shall  be  issued  under  the  authority  of 
this  act  until  and  unless  the  electors  of  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  qualified  to  vote  on  any  proposition  to  impose 
a tax  or  for  the  expenditure  of  money,  when  legally  assem- 
bled in  town  meeting,  shall  vote  to  accept  this  act. 

SEC.  6.  This  act  shall  take  effect  when  accepted  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  provisions  of  section  5 hereof. 


CHAPTER  410. 

Passed  May  4,  1909. 

AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  CHAPTER  1466  OF  THE  PUB- 
LIC LAWS,  PASSED  AT  THE  JANUARY  SESSION,  A.  D. 
1907,  ENTITLED  “AN  ACT  DEFINING  THE  POWERS 
AND  DUTIES  OF  THE  METROPOLITAN  PARK  COM- 
MISSIONERS AND  PROVIDING  FOR  THE  ACQUIRING 
OF  LAND  AND  THE  IMPROVEMENT  AND  MAINTE- 
NANCE OF  PUBLIC  LANDS  WITHIN  THE  METRO- 
POLITAN PARK  DISTRICT  OF  PROVIDENCE  PLANTA- 
TIONS,” AND  ANY  ACTS  IN  AMENDMENT  THEREOF 
AND  IN  ADDITION  THERETO. 


CHAPTER  484. 

Passed  April  22,  1909. 

AN  ACT  IN  RELATION  TO  BUILDINGS  IN  THE  TOWN  OF 
EAST  PROVIDENCE,  AND  FOR  OTHER  PURPOSES. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Buildings  and  structures  belonging  to  the 


relating  to  the  town. 


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United  States,  or  to  this  state,  are  exempted  from  the  opera-  ^nce  tow'n  of. 
tions  of  this  act. 

Sec.  2.  In  the  construction  of  this  act,  if  not  inconsistent 
with  the  context,  the  following  terms  shall  have  the  respec- 
tive meanings  herein  assigned  to  them,  viz. : 

“External  wall”  shall  apply  to  every  outer  wall  or  vertical 
enclosure  of  a building,  other  than  a party  wall. 

“Party  wall”  shall  apply  to  every  wall  used,  or  built,  in- 
tended as  a separation  of  any  building  from  any  other  build- 
ing to  be  occupied  by  different  persons. 

“Foundation  wall”  shall  mean  that  portion  of  external 
walls  below  the  level  of  the  street  curb;  and  for  walls  not 
on  any  street,  that  portion  of  the  wall  below  the  level  of  the 
ground  outside  of  the  wall. 

“Partition  wall”  shall  mean  any  interior  wall  of  masonry 
in  a building. 

A “tenement  house”  shall  mean  and  include  every  house, 
building,  or  portion  thereof  which  is  intended  to  be  occu- 
pied or  is  occupied  as  the  residence  of  more  than  three 
families  living  independently  of  one  another,  and  doing  their 
cooking  upon  the  premises,  or  by  more  than  two  families 
upon  a floor  so  living  and  cooking,  but  having  a common 
right  in  the  halls,  stairways,  yards,  water-closets  or  privies, 
or  some  of  them. 

A “lodging  house”  shall  mean  and  include  any  house  or 
building,  or  portion  thereof,  in  which  persons  are  lodged  for 
hire,  for  a single  night,  or  for  less  than  a week  at  one  time. 

A “cellar”  shall  mean  every  basement  or  lower  story  of 
any  building  or  house,  of  which  one-half  or  more  of  the 
height  from  the  floor  to  the  ceiling  is  below  the  level  of  the 
ground  adjoining. 

Sec.  3.  The  inspector  of  buildings  of  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  in  addition  to  the  duties  prescribed  by  Chapter 
108  of  the  General  Laws  and  Chapter  1536  of  the  Public 
Laws,  is  charged  with  the  duty  of  executing  the  provisions 
of  this  act,  and  shall  keep  a record  of  his  doings,  report  all 
violations  of  this  act  to  the  town  council  for  prosecution. 


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and  shall  annually,  and  as  much  oftener  as  he  may  be  re- 
quired by  the  town  council,  make  return  to  said  town  council 
of  his  doings  thereunder.  He  shall  examine  all  buildings  in 
the  course  of  erection,  alteration,  or  repair,  as  often  as  prac- 
ticable, and  shall  make  a record  of  all  violations  of  this  act, 
together  with  the  street  and  number  where  such  violations 
are  found,  the  name  of  the  owner,  lessee,  occupants,  archi- 
tects, and  master  mechanics,  and  all  other  matters  relative 
thereto.  He  shall  examine  all  buildings  reported  dangerous 
or  damaged  by  fire  or  accident,  and  make  a record  of  such 
examination,  including  the  nature  and  amount  of  such  dam- 
age, with  the  name  of  the  street  and  number  of  the  building, 
the  name  of  the  owner  and  lessee,  and  for  what  purpose  oc- 
cupied, and  in  case  of  fire  the  probable  origin  thereof,  and 
shall  also  examine  all  buildings  under  applications  to  raise, 
enlarge,  alter,  or  build  upon,  and  make  a record  of  the  con- 
dition of  the  same. 

Se:c.  4.  Any  alteration  in  or  addition  to  any  building 
already  erected,  or  hereafter  to  be  built,  except  necessary  re- 
pairs not  affecting  the  construction  of  the  external  or  party 
walls,  chimneys,  or  stairways,  shall  to  the  extent  of. such 
work  be  subject  to  the  regulations  of  this  act. 

No  building  already  erected,  or  hereafter  built,  shall  be 
raised  or  built  upon  in  such  manner  that,  were  such  building 
wholly  built  or  constructed  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  it 
would  be  in  violation  of  any  provision  thereof. 

Se:c.  5.  No  work  except  necessary  repairs  shall  be  done 
upon  any  structure  or  building  in  said  town  without  a per- 
mit from  the  inspector  of  buildings,  nor,  except  in  con- 
formity with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  upon  application 
said  inspector  of  buildings  shall  issue  such  permit  in  accord- 
ance herewith.  Any  one  commencing  or  having  work  per- 
formed before  obtaining  said  permit  shall,  after  a written 
notice,  forfeit  and  pay  a penalty  of  five  dollars  per  day  for 
each  day  such  violation  continues. 

All  permits  granted  for  building  operations  that  are  not 
commenced  within  a period  of  six  months  from  the  time  of 


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issuance  shall  expire  by  limitation.  The  said  inspector  shall 
not  grant  any  permit  for  the  commencement  of  any  building 
operations  until  the  owner  or  owners,  or  the  duly  authorized 
agent  or  architect  of  the  same,  shall  have  filled  out  and 
signed  a blank  application  giving  full  particulars  of  where 
and  of  what  such  building  operations  are  to  be,  and  every 
such  application  which  shall  be  thought  of  sufficient  import- 
ance by  the  inspector  of  buildings  shall  be  accompanied  by  a 
copy  of  the  plans  or  specifications,  or  both,  as  may  be  re- 
quired. 

Sec.  6.  Any  excavation  upon  a lot  adjoining  a street  shall 
he  properly  guarded  and  protected  by  the  person  having 
charge  of  such  excavation  so  as  not  to  become  dangerous  to 
public  travel. 

Sec.  7.  Whenever  any  person  shall  be  about  to  erect  or 
alter  the  exterior  walls  of  a building,  within  five  feet  of  the 
line  of  a traveled  street,  said  person  shall  cause  the  portion 
of. the  site  of  said  building,  bordering  upon  said  street  to  be 
enclosed  by  a proper  fence  not  less  than  four  feet  high,  and 
at  least  seven  feet  from  the  line  of  such  building;  and  if 
such  fence  shall  prevent  passage  on  the  sidewalk,  shall  lay 
and  maintain  a plank  walk  around  the  same  not  less  than 
thirty  inches  wide ; and  said  fence  shall  be  made  as  much 
higher  and  the  walk  as  much  wider  as  the  inspector  of  build- 
ings shall  direct,  and  the  same  shall  be  maintained  until  all 
liability  to  accident  from  falling  materials  shall  be  termi- 
nated. 

No  person  shall  erect,  or  continue  when  erected,  any 
staging  in  any  highway  for  the  purpose  of  repairing  or 
erecting  a building  without  first  obtaining  permission  from 
the  inspector  of  buildings,  and  all  such  staging  shall  be  so 
erected  and  secured  as  to  be  safe  and  sufficient  for  the  pur- 
pose for  which  it  was  erected,  and  in  case  said  staging  shall 
necessarily  remain  after  dark  a sufficient  light  shall  be  placed 
on  it,  at  a height  of  not  exceeding  six  feet  from  the  grade, 
which  light  shall  be  kept  from  sunset  to  sunrise. 

In  erecting  any  building  no  person  shall  place,  deposit,  or 


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suffer  to  remain  in  any  street  or  highway  any  lumber  or  other 
building  material,  rubbish,  or  remains  of  any  old  building  for 
a longer  period  than  may  be  necessary  for  the  prosecution  of 
the  work  which  may  be  going  on ; and  in  case  such  material, 
rubbish,  or  remains  of  an  old  building  shall  necessarily  re- 
main after  dark,  a sufficient  light  shall  be  placed  over  or  near 
the  same,  and  kept  from  sunset  to  sunrise. 

All  rubbish  from  erecting  or  repairing  of  any  building, 
or  the  removal  of  an  old  building,  shall  be  carried  away  by 
the  person  so  erecting  or  repairing  such  building  at  such 
time  as  any  highway  surveyor  may  direct;  and  in  case  of 
neglect  or  refusal  so  to  do,  it  shall  be  removed  by  a highway 
surveyor  at  the  expense  of  the  person  so  erecting  or  repair- 
ing such  building.  Any  person  violating  any  provision  of 
this  section  shall  pay  a fine  of  five  dollars. 

SEC.  8.  Every  permanent  building  shall  have  foundations 
not  less  than  four  feet  below  the  surface  exposed  to  frost, 
resting  upon  the  solid  ground  or  upon  concrete  piles  or  other 
solid  sub-structure.  Every  wall  other  than  foundation  walls, 
constructed  of  brick,  stone,  or  other  similar  substance,  shall 
be  properly  bonded  and  solidly  built  with  mortar  or  cement 
of  the  best  quality  for  the  purpose  for  which  it  is  applied. 

The  thickness  of  every  wall  as  hereinafter  prescribed  shall 
be  the  minimum  thickness  as  applied  to  solid  walls. 

The  height  of  every  external  or  party  wall,  as  referred  to 
in  this  act,  or  in  any  act  in  amendment  thereof,  shall  be 
measured  from  the  level  of  the  finished  grade  to  its  highest 
point ; on  sloping  ground,  such  height  to  be  measured  at  in- 
tervals of  ten  feet. 

Sec.  9.  Foundation  walls  shall  rest  on  a proper  base  or 
footing  course ; if  stone,  each  stone  shall  have  the  upper  and 
under  surfaces  approximately  paralleled,  and  shall  be  close- 
fitted  and  bedded  solid.  Timber*  shall  be  used  only  where  it 
will  be  constantly  immersed  in  water.  The  breadth  of  every 
base  course  shall  be  in  proportion  to  the  load  to  be  carried 
and  to  the  softness  of  the  soil  beneath  it. 

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wooden  building  over  one  story  in  height  shall  not  be  less 
than  two  by  four  inches  and  shall  be  placed  not  over  sixteen 
inches  on  centres : Provided,  however,  other  methods  of 

construction  of  equivalent  structural  strength  may  be  used 
upon  the  approval  of  the  inspector  of  buildings. 

Foundation  walls  for  wooden  buildings  shall  be  of  brick, 
at  least  twelve  inches  thick,  or  rubble  or  block  stone  at  least 
sixteen  inches  thick,  laid  in  cement  mortar,  or  dry  rubble 
stone  at  least  eighteen  inches  thick. 

Sec.  10.  Party  walls  or  division  walls  between  adjoining 
houses,  thirty-five  feet  or  more  in  height,  shall  be  of  brick 
or  concrete  not  less  than  twelve  inches  thick  to  the  top  of  the 
second  floor  above  the  street  and  eight  inches  thick  for  the 
remaining  height ; such  walls  less  than  thirty-five  feet  in 
height  may  be  eight  inches  thick  for  the  entire  height.  Door- 
ways may  be  cut  through,  or  built  in  said  walls,  upon  appli- 
cation to,  and  a permit  from  the  inspector  of  buildings,  pro- 
vided that  no  doorway  shall  be  cut  through  or  built  in  any 
such  wall  in  any  building  used  for  a hotel,  lodging  or  tene- 
ment house,  or  for  the  storage  of  inflammable  or  dangerous 
materials.  Every  such  doorway  shall  be  provided  with  tin-cov- 
ered, self-closing  doors,  satisfactory  to  the  inspector  of  build- 
ings. Upon  proof  being  shown  that  such  doors  are  in  any 
manner  prevented  from  operating  as  intended,  said  inspector 
shall  have  the  power  to  revoke  said  permit,  and  said  doorway 
shall  be  filled  up  with  brick  and  mortar  or  some  similar 
material.  In  dwelling-houses  the  brick  wall  shall  be  built 
up  to  the  roof  covering,  which  shall  be  laid  and  imbedded 
in  mortar  or  cement  upon  said  wall. 

SEC.  11.  For  dwelling-houses  of  brick,  with  walls  not 
exceeding  thirty-five  feet  in  height,  foundation  walls,  laid 
with  block  or  ledge  stone  in  cement  mortar,  or  in  brick  laid  in 
cement,  shall  be  not  less  than  sixteen  inches  thick,  and  ex- 
ternal and  party  walls  of  brick  shall  be  not  less  than  twelve 
inches  thick  for  the  entire  height. 

Sec.  12.  Buildings  other  than  dwelling-houses  shall  have 
walls  of  the  following  thickness : 


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Brick  buildings,  in  which  the  walls  do  not  exceed  thirty 
feet  in  height,  the  external  walls  shall  not  be  less  than  twelve 
inches  thick,  and  the  foundation  walls  of  the  same  not  less 
than  twenty  inches  thick,  except  as  hereinafter  provided.  In 
determining  the  height  of  buildings  or  the  walls  thereof, 
under  this  section,  the  highest  points  thereof  shall  be  taken  to 
be  the  highest  cornice  line  of  the  buildings. 

Brick  buildings  to  be  used  for  dwelling,  tenement,  and 
lodging  houses,  not  more  than  twenty-five  feet  in  height,  and 
brick  buildings  other  than  dwelling,  tenement,  or  lodging 
bouses,  not  exceeding  twelve  feet  in  height,  may  have  ex- 
ternal walls  eight  inches  thick. 

For  buildings  in  which  the  walls  do  not  exceed  forty  feet 
in  height,  foundation  walls  shall  be  laid  of  block  or  ledge 
stone  in  cement  mortar,  not  less  than  twenty-four  inches 
thick;  external  walls  shall  not  be  less  than  sixteen  inches 
thick  to  the  top  of  the  first  story,  and  not  less  than  twelve 
inches  thick  for  the  remaining  height. 

In  all  buildings  over  twenty-five  feet  in  width,  not  having 
either  brick  partition  walls  or  girders  supported  by  columns 
running  lengthwise  of  the  building,  the  external  walls  shall 
be  increased  four  inches  in  thickness  for  every  additional 
twenty-five  feet  in  width  of  said  building. 

Bearing  walls  over  ninety  feet  in  length  without  cross 
walls  or  buttresses  of  equal  height  with  the  wall  shall  be  four 
inches  thicker  than  above  required. 

Where  iron  or  steel  construction  is  used,  the  strength 
thereof  shall  be  substantially  equivalent  to  that  required  in 
cases  of  brick  or  other  similar  construction  and  shall  be  satis- 
factory to  the  inspector  of  buildings. 

Hollow  walls  may  be  built ; but  all  such  walls  shall  be  tied 
together  with  incombustible  anchors  placed  not  more  than 
three  feet  apart.  If  used  as  bearing  walls,  the  thickness 
shall  be  reckoned  by  their  solid  parts,  unless  either  part  is  at 
least  eight  inches  thick  and  solid  vertical  connections  are 
made  not  less  than  twelve  inches  wide  nor  more  than  eight 
feet  apart  from  centres,  in  which  case  two-thirds  of  the 


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hollow  space  shall  be  counted  with  the  solid  parts.  In  no 
case  shall  the  ends  of  joists  or  other  woodwork  be  allowed  to 
come  within  four  inches  of  the  hollow  space. 

In  brick  walls  every  ninth  course  shall  be  a heading  course, 
except  where  some  bond  is  used  in  which  at  least  every 
ninth  course  is  a heading  course,  or  where  walls  are  faced 
with  face  brick,  when  every  ninth  course  shall  be  bonded  with 
Flemish  headers,  or  by  cutting  the  face  course  and  putting  in 
diagonal  headers  behind,  or  by  splitting  the  face  brick  in 
half  and  backing  the  same  by  a continuous  row  of  headers, 
Metal  ties,  built  in  as  often  as  every  ninth  course,  and  not 
over  twelve  inches  apart,  may  be  used  instead  of  the  brick 
headers. 

Se:c.  13.  Every  pier  or  column  supporting  walls  of 
masonry  shall  have  for  a footing  course  a broad  leveler  of 
concrete,  block  stone  or  ledge  stone,  of  sufficient  thickness, 
and  with  a bearing  surface  equal  in  area  the  square  of  one 
foot  more  than  the  width  of  the  footing  course  required  for 
a wall  of  the  same  thickness  as  that  borne  by  the  piers  or 
columns;  and  if  the  foundation  of  such  piers  or  columns 
rests  upon  piles,  a sufficient  number  shall  be  driven  to  insure 
a proper  support. 

Every  brick  pier  shall  have  one  or  more  binders  built 
therein,  either  of  iron  not  less  than  one  inch  thick,  of  blue- 
stone  not  less  than  three  inches,  or  of  granite  or  sandstone 
not  less  than  five  inches  thick ; these  binders  shall  be  of  the 
full  size  of  the  pier  except  in  piers  on  the  street  front  above 
the  curb,  where  they  may  be  four  inches  less  in  diameter. 
The  distance  between  any  two  binders  or  between  either  of 
them  and  the  capstone  or  base  of  the  pier  shall  not  exceed 
four  feet. 

Columns  supported  by  brick  walls  or  piers  shall  rest  upon 
an  iron  plate  at  least  one  inch  thick,  or  upon  a capstone  of 
granite  at  least  eight  inches  thick,  or  of  bluestone  at  least 
four  inches  thick,  of  a size  satisfactory  to  the  inspector  of 
buildings.  Under  iron  columns  shall  in  all  cases  be  an  iron 
plate  of  not  less  than  one  inch  in  thickness.  All  iron  col- 


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iimns  must  be  wrought  to  a true  bearing  at  right  angles  with 
the  axis  and  must  be  set  plumb  without  wedging  up,  except 
with  thin  iron  wedges. 

Sec.  Id.  Floor  beams  shall  have  a bearing  of  at  least 
four  inches  at  each  end.  Every  trimmer  or  header  more 
than  four  feet  long,  used  in  any  building  except  a dwelling, 
shall  be  hung  in  stirrup  irons  of  suitable  thickness  for  the 
weight  to  be  supported.  The  butts  or  ends  of  all  floors, 
beams,  and  rafters  entering  a brick  wall  shall  be  cut  on  a 
splay  of  three  inches  in  their  width.  All  main  partitions 
supporting  in  any  manner  the  floor  beams  or  rafters  shall  be 
placed  directly  over  each  other,  and  shall  rest  on  a wall, 
girder,  or  hard  pine  capping,  and  shall  head  and  foot  against 
each  other  as  far  as  practicable. 

Roof  or  floor  timbers  entering  the  same  party  wall  from 
opposite  sides  shall  have  at  least  four  inches  of  solid  brick 
work  between  the  ends  of  said  timbers. 

Under  the  ends  of  iron  or  wooden  girders  resting  on  walls, 
a stone  template  shall  be  built  into  the  wall  not  less  in  width 
than  four  inches  less  than  the  thickness  of  said  walls,  and 
not  in  any  case  less  than  four  inches  in  thickness  and  eighteen 
inches  long.  Iron  wall  plates  may  be  used  in  place  of  such 
template,  not  less  than  one  inch  in  thickness. 

Sec.  15.  Flat  roofs  shall  be  constructed  to  bear  a safe 
weight,  exclusive  of  materials,  of  not  less  than  fifty  pounds 
per  superficial  foot.  Floors,  except  attic  floors,  shall  be 
constructed  to  bear  a safe  weight  per  superficial  foot,  ex- 
clusive of  materials,  as  follows:  For  dwelling-houses,  ex- 

cept of  attics,  apartment  houses,  apartment  hotels,  tene- 
ments, lodging  houses,  and  hotels,  not  less  than  sixty  pounds ; 
school  houses,  stables,  and  office  buildings,  not  less  than 
seventy-five  pounds ; except  the  first,  floor  of  office  buildings, 
used  for  store  purposes,  when  it  shall  not  be  less  than  one 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds;  floors  in  buildings  to  be  used  as 
a place  of  public  assembly,  not  less  than  one  hundred  pounds ; 
floors  in  buildings  to  be  used  for  ordinary  stores,  light  manu- 
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twenty  pounds ; floors  in  buildings  to  be  used  as  a store  where 
heavy  materials  are  to  be  kept  or  stored,  warehouses,  fac- 
tories, or  for  other  manufacturing  or  commercial  purposes, 
not  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds;  for  floors  to 
carry  running  machinery  or  for  dancing  or  marching  pur- 
poses, or  for  any  other  purpose  tending  to  produce  a vibra- 
tory impulse,  the  inspector  may  require  these  minimum  loads 
increased. 

No  floor  shall  he  loaded  with  a greater  weight  than  above 
assigned'  to  its  class,  unless  it  shall  have  been  previously 
examined  by  a competent  architect,  civil  engineer,  or  master 
builder  not  interested  in  the  construction  of  the  building,  who 
shall  give  a certificate  of  the  weight  per  square  foot  such 
floor  can  safely  sustain,  a copy  of  which  certificate  shall  be 
posted  in  a conspicuous  place  above  or  adjacent  to  such  floor, 
and  the  weight  therein  named  shall  in  no  case  be  exceeded. 

No  person  shall  load  any  floor  to  a greater  degree  than 
above  named,  or  shall  remove  any  certificate  posted  as  above. 

Sec.  16.  No  bay  or  oriel  window  or  other  structure  shall 
be  placed  upon  any  building  so  as  to  project  over  any  public 
way  or  square  more  than  four  feet,  and  then  only  in  such 
manner  as  shall  be  approved  by  the  inspector  of  buildings ; 
but  in  no  case  shall  any  such  projection  extend  below  a line 
drawn  at  an  angle  of  forty-five  degrees,  starting  at  a point 
eight  feet  above  the  sidewalk,  immediately  beneath  ; nor  shall 
any  oriel  or  bay  window  or  other  structure  extend  beyond  a 
line  drawn  horizontally  from  the  nearest  corner  of  the  ad- 
jacent lot,  at  an  angle  of  thirty  degrees  with  the  street  line. 
All  such  projections  shall  be  provided  with  gutters  and  con- 
ductors to  prevent  as  far  as  possible  any  water  from  dripping 
or  flowing  onto  the  sidewalk. 

Buildings  shall  have  scuttles  not  less  in  size  than  two  by 
three  feet,  or  bulkheads  and  doors  on  the  roof,  and  shall  have 
stationary  ladders  or  stairs  leading  to  the  same,  and  such 
scuttles  and  ladders  shall  be  kept  so  as  to  be  ready  for  use 
at  all  times. 

SEC.  17.  Chimneys  shall  be  built  of  well-burned  brick  or 


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clay  pipe,  stone,  or  iron.  Brick  flues  shall  have  joints  filled 
and  struck,  and  be  smoothly  plastered  outside  below  the 
roof ; plastering  to  be  put  on  after  the  chimney  is  built  up  -to 
the  full  height.  Iron  or  clay  pipe,  if  used,  must  be  enclosed 
in  a brick  flue,  or  in  an  outer  pipe  of  non-combustible  ma- 
terial, with  a space  between  of  not  less  than  one  inch ; and 
all  joints  in  such  pipes  must  be  thoroughly  filled  with  fire- 
clay or  incombustible  cement ; brick  chimneys  must  have 
outer  brick  walls  at  least  four  inches  thick.  Outside  walls 
of  flues  not  over  one  hundred  inches  in  area,  for  ranges, 
furnaces,  boilers,  and  ovens,  shall  be  of  at  least  six  inches,  if 
of  greater  area  of  at  least  eight  inches,  of  brick  work. 

Brick  flues,  not  starting  from  the  foundation  walls,  shall 
be  securely  built  into  the  brick  work  of  the  walls  to  which 
they  are  hung.  In  no  case  shall  chimneys  rest  upon  any 
flooring  without  a footing  of  masonry  or  iron  supported  by 
iron  beams,  having  a secure  bearing  on  masonry  or  iron  at 
either  end.  The  brickwork  of  an  isolated  chimney  shall  not 
be  carried  over  more  than  three-quarters  of  an  inch  to  each 
course  of  brick,  nor  so  far  as  to  throw  the  centre  of  gravity 
of  said  chimney  outside  of  the  base  thereof.  Flues  shall  be 
topped  out  at  least  three  feet  above  the  roof ; brick  topping 
of  chimneys  shall  not  project  more  than  two  inches,  unless 
covered  by  metal,  stone,  or  terra  cotta  caps,  well  secured. 

Hearths  of  fireplaces,  or  grates  shall  be  laid  upon  incom- 
bustible supports.  Wooden  centering,  supporting  a trimmer 
arch,  shall  be  removed  before  plastering  underneath. 

Brickwork  back  of  all  grates,  fireplaces,  and  ranges  shall 
not  be  less  than  eight  inches  thick;  and  when  it  adjoins  a 
wooden  or  stud  partition  shall  have  at  least  two  four-inch 
walls,  with  at  least  a two-inch  air  space  between.  No  wood- 
work shall  be  secured  to  the  brickwork  of  any  flue. 

Smokepipes  in  buildings  having  combustible  floors  or  ceil- 
ings shall  enter  flues  at  least  twelve  inches  from  floors  or  ceil- 
ings ; and  where  they  pass  through  stud  or  wooden  partitions, 
whether  plastered  or  not,  shall  be  guarded  by  a double  collar 
of  metal,  with  at  least  a four-inch  air  space  and  holes  for 


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ventilation,  or  by  a soapstone  ring  at  least  four  inches  in 
thickness,  extending  through  the  partition.  Earthen  funnels 
in  chimneys  shall  project  not  more  than  one  inch  from  the 
brickwork  thereof ; metal  funnels  carried  through  furring  or 
studding  shall  be  filled  around  with,  brick  or  stone  for  at 
least  six  inches  out  from  the  pipe  and  shall  pass  entirely  into 
the  chimney,  or  have  an  outer  ring  of  metal  at  least  four 
inches  at  every  point  from  the  funnel,  the  space  between  to 
be  left  open  or  covered  with  perforated  metal. 

The  smokepipe  of  any  hot-air,  steam,  hot-water  or  other 
furnace,  passing  beneath  wooden  beams  or  ceilings,  shall  be 
kept  at  least  eighteen  inches  therefrom,  or  the  woodwork 
shall  be  protected  by  a tin  shield  suspended  at  least  one  inch 
below.  Tops  of  furnaces  set  in  brick  shall  be  covered  with 
brick  so  as  to  be  perfectly  tight,  in  addition  to  and  not  less 
than  two  inches  from  the  covering  of  the  hot-air  chamber, 
and  shall  be  at  least  four  inches  below,  and  the  tops  of  port- 
able furnaces  at  least  one  foot  below,  any  wooden  beams  or 
ceilings.  Cold  air  boxes  to  furnaces  shall  be  of  incom- 
bustible material. 

Registers  connected  with  hot-air  furnaces  shall  be  set  in 
non-conducting,  incombustible  borders  at  least  two  inches 
wide.  Register  boxes  shall  be  made  of  tin  plate  with  a flange 
on  the  top  to  fit  a groove  in  the  border.  There  shall  also  be 
an  open  space  of  not  less  than  one  inch  on  all  sides  of  the 
register  box,  extending  in  floor  registers  from  the  under  side 
of  the  ceiling,  below  the  register,  to  the  border  in  the  floor, 
the  outside  of  said  space  to  be  covered  with  a casing  of  tin 
plate,  made  tight  on  all  sides,  to  extend  to  and  turn  under 
the  said  border.  Registers  of  fifteen  by  twenty-five  inches  or 
more  shall  have  a space  of  not  less  than  two  inches. 

No  woodwork  shall  be  placed  at  a less  distance  than  one 
inch  from  any  tin  or  other  metal  flue  or  pipe  used  or  to  be 
used  to  convey  heated  air  unless  protected  by  a soapstone  or 
earthen  ring  or  tube,  or  a metal  casing  so  constructed  as  to 
permit  free  circulation  of  air  around  said  pipe  or  flue. 

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directly  upon  the  bricks  up  to  the  ceiling  of  the  room,  and 
no  woodwork  shall  be  placed  on  the  outside  thereof  below 
said  ceiling. 

Stoves  shall  be  placed  upon  incombustible  bases.  Their 
bodies  shall  be  at  least  twenty,  and  smokepipes  at  least  twelve, 
inches  from  any  unprotected  woodwork.  Woodwork  within 
said  distances  shall  be  protected  by  metal  covering,  and  if 
within  less  than  one-third  of  said  distances,  shall  have  a 
double  metal  covering  with  ventilating  air  space  between. 

Open  fireplaces,  cooking  ranges,  set  kettles,  and  the  like, 
shall  have  fireproof  foundations  with  fireproof  hearth  ex- 
tending not  less  than  sixteen  inches  from  the  grate  or  ash 
pit.  No  brick  structure  to  contain  fire  shall  be  allowed  on 
a wooden  floor  in  any  building.  The  provisions  of  this  sec- 
tion shall  apply  to  buildings  already  erected,  if  found  neces- 
sary, and  ordered,  after  examination  of  the  premises,  by  the 
inspector. 

No  heater  shall  be  used  in  any  room  where  hay,  straw,  or 
highly  inflammable  articles  are  kept  or  stored  unless  pro- 
tected by  a surrounding  wire  screen,  with  not  more  than 
quarter-inch  meshes ; no  light  shall  be  used  in  such  room 
unless  contained  in  a glass  globe,  lantern,  or  chimney,  thor- 
oughly protected  by  a wire  screen. 

Steam  pipes  shall  be  kept  at  least  one  inch  from  all  wood- 
work, or  shall  be  protected  by  an  incombustible  ring  or  tube, 
or  rest  on  iron  supports. 

Depositories  for  ashes  in  the  interior  of  any  building  shall 
be  built  of  incombustible  material. 

If  any  chimney,  flue,  or  heating  apparatus  shall  in  the 
opinion  of  the  inspector  of  buildings  be  unsafe  by  reason  of 
endangering  the  premises  by  fire  or  otherwise,  the  inspector 
shall  at  once  notify  in  writing  the  owner,  agent,  or  other 
party  having  an  interest  in  said  premises,  who,  upon  receiving 
said  notice,  shall  make  the  same  safe  in  pursuance  of  the 
terms  of  said  notice. 

SEC.  18.  Boiler-houses  and  boiler-rooms  in  woodworking 
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where  shavings  or  other  highly  inflammable  fuel  is  used,  shall 
be  enclosed  with  brick,  stone,  or  concrete  walls,  or  iron  studs, 
filled  with  concrete.  Roofs  or  floors  over  such  boiler- 
rooms  shall  be  made  of  iron,  brick,  stone,  or  concrete  arches 
of  slabs,  or  if  of  wood  shall  be  protected  with  fireproof  tile 
or  plastered  on  iron  laths  or  wire  netting,  or  covered  with 
metal.  The  doors  to  such  rooms  shall  be  of  iron,  or  of 
wood  covered  with  metal,  and  have  an  opening  in  said  door 
glazed  with  not  less  than  one-quarter-inch  thick  glass,  and 
shall  be  kept  securely  shut,  except  during  working  hours. 
The  floors  of  rooms  containing  stationary  boilers  shall  be 
made  of  incombustible  material  for  at  least  ten  feet  in  front, 
and  for  such  distance  on  the  sides  and  rear  as  may  be  re- 
quired by  the  said  inspector.  Wooden  floors  under  portable 
boilers  shall  have  close  protection  of  incombustible  material. 

No  woodwork  shall  be  placed  within  one  foot  of  such 
boiler  or  smokepipe,  or  within  six  feet  of  the  front,  four  feet 
of  the  sides,  top,  rear,  or  smoke  conductor,  unless  protected 
by  fireproof  tiles  at  least  one-half  inch  thick,  or  by  being 
plastered  on  iron  laths  or  wire  netting,  or  by  metal  between 
the  wood  and  the  metal  sheathing  with  at  least  a one-inch  air 
space  between  the  wood  and  metal ; the  overheads,  im- 
mediately over  hot-water  or  low-pressure  steam  booilers, 
used  exclusively  for  heating,  if  within  four  feet  of  the  top 
thereof,  may  be  plastered  on  wooden  laths  or  sheathed  with 
metal. 

Rooms  for  drying  lumber  or  other  inflammable  material 
heated  by  direct  heat  from  the  top  of  boilers  shall  be  con- 
structed and  roofed  and  have  doors  as  described  for  boiler 
houses. 

SEC.  19.  Factories,  mills,  and  buildings  where  more  than 
twenty-five  operatives  are  employed,  hotels,  boarding,  tene- 
ment, lodging,  and  apartment  houses,  and  buildings  not  here- 
after specially  mentioned,  shall  have  the  partitions  adjacent 
to  or  enclosing  all  stairways  constructed  of  incombustible 
material,  or  at  least  two-by-three  studding  plastered  on  both 
sides  and  protected  as  follows : The  space  from  the  top  of 


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the  lathing  or  head  of  the  partition  below  to  a line  three 
inches  above  the  top  of  the  base  board,  or  six  inches  above 
the  top  of  the  floor,  if  there  be  no  base  board,  and  the  space 
adjoining  the  strings  of  the  stairs  from  the  underside  of  said 
brings  to  a line  three  inches  above  the  base  board  thereof, 
or  six  inches  above  the  rake  of  the  nosings,  if  there  be  no 
base  board,  shall  be  filled  in  solid  with  brick  or  stone  set  in 
mortar,  concrete  grouting,  tile,  or  other  incombustible  filling ; 
if  the  stairs  are  wainscoted  there  shall  be  a similar  filling 
three  inches  above  and  below  the  top  lines  of  the  wainscoting. 

Public  halls,  churches,  schoolhouses,  and  places  of  public 
assembly,  and  business  buildings,  shall  have  stairway  parti- 
tions constructed  as  herein  described ; but  unless  filled  in 
solid  shall  be  plastered  on  both  sides  on  iron  or  wire  laths, 
or  be  covered  with  other  incombustible,  non-conducting 
material. 

In  all  buildings  herein  mentioned  the  spaces  between  the 
floor  joists  in  each  story  at  the  stair  landings,  and  the  space 
above  the  floors  immediately  below  the  stairs,  if  ceiled  with 
wood  or  plastered  on  wood  laths,  shall  be  filled  with  mortar 
or  concrete  from  the  top  of  the  laths  or  ceiling  to  one-half 
inch  above  the  bottom  of  the  floor  joists,  and  all  connections 
between  such  spaces  and  other  parts  of  the  floor  shall  be 
stopped  off  by  similar  filling. 

In  theatres  or  public  halls  fitted  for  theatrical  perform- 
ances, stairway  partitions  and  enclosures  must  be  substan- 
tially incombustible. 

Sec.  20.  No  exterior  opening,  doorway,  or  stairway  lead- 
ing from  a theatre,  hall,  church,  schoolhouse,  or  other  place 
of  public  assembly  shall  be  less  than  five  feet  wide,  and 
such  buildings  shall  have  the  doors  to  any  exit,  and  of  any 
opening  thereto,  so  arranged  as  to  swing  outward,  and  at 
no  time  when  any  show,  performance,  or  exhibition,  dance, 
ball,  fair,  service,  or  session  is  being  given  or  held  therein,  or 
any  audience  shall  be  present  therein,  shall  said  doors  or 
windows  be  locked,  and  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall 
apply  to  all  such  buildings  already  erected,  or  that  may  be 


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hereafter  erected,  in  the  town  of  East  Providence. 

Se:c.  21.  No  person  shall  hereafter  erect,  alter,  or  enlarge 
any  building  for  a stable,  except  in  such  place  as  the  town 
council  shall  first  approye  and  direct.  The  superior  court  or 
any  justice  thereof,  either  in  term  time  or  vacation,  may 
issue  an  injunction  to  prevent  the  erection,  altering,  en- 
larging, or  use  of  any  stable  contrary  to  the  provisions  of 
this  section. 

Se:c.  22.  If  any  building  or  part  of  a building,  staging,  or 
other  structure,  or  anything  attached  to  or  connected  with 
any  building  or  other  structure,  shall  from  any  cause  be  re- 
ported unsafe,  the  inspector  of  buildings  shall  examine  such 
structure,  and,  if  in  his  opinion  the  same  be  unsafe,  he  shall 
immediately  notify  the  owner,  agent,  or  other  person  having 
an  interest  in  said  structure  to  cause  the  same  to  be  made 
safe  and  secure,  or  that  the  same  be  removed,  as  may  be 
necessary.  The  person  so  notified  shall  be  allowed  until 
twelve  o’clock,  noon,  of  the  day  following  the  service  of 
such  notice,  in  which  to  commence  the  securing  or  removal 
of  the  same;  and  he  shall  employ  sufficient  labor  to  remove 
or  secure  the  said  building  as  expeditiously  as  can  be  done : 
Provided,  however,  that  in  a case  where  the  public  safety  re- 
quires immediate  action,  the  inspector  of  buildings  may  enter 
upon  the  premises,  with  such  workmen  and  assistants  as  may 
be  necessary,  and  cause  the  said  unsafe  structure  to  be 
shored  up,  taken  down,  or  otherwise  secured,  without  delay, 
and  a proper  fence  or  boarding  to  be  put  up  for  the  protec- 
tion of  passersby. 

When  the  public  safety  does  not  demand  immediate  action, 
if  the  owner,  or  other  party  interested  in  said  unsafe  struc- 
ture, having  been  notified,  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  comply 
with  the  requirements  of  said  notice  within  the  time  specified , 
then  a careful  survey  of  the  premises  shall  be  made  by  three 
disinterested  persons,  one  to  be  appointed  by  the  inspector  of 
buildings,  one  by  the  owner  or  other  interested  party,  and 
the  third  chosen  by  these  two,  and  the  report  of  such  survey 
shall  be  reduced  to  writing,  and  a copy  served  upon  the 


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owner  or  other  interested  party;  and  if  said  owner  or  other 
interested  party  refuse  or  neglect  to  appoint  a member  of 
said  board  of  survey  within  the  time  specified  in  said  last 
notice,  then  the  survey  shall  be  made  by  an  architect  and  a 
civil  engineer  appointed  by  the  town  council,  and  in  case  of 
disagreement  they  shall  choose  a third  person,  and  the  de- 
termination of  a majority  of  the  three  so  chosen  shall  be  final. 

Whenever  the  report  of  any  such  survey  shall  declare  the 
structure  to  be  unsafe,  and  the  owner  or  other  interested  per- 
son shall  for  three  days  neglect  or  refuse  to  cause  such  struc- 
ture to  be  taken  down  or  otherwise  to  be  made  safe,  the  in- 
spector of  buildings  shall  proceed  to  make  such  structure 
safe  or  remove  the  same ; and  the  costs  and  charges  shall  be- 
come a lien  upon  said  estate,  to  be  collected  according  to  the 
provisions  of  Chapter  206  of  the  General  Laws,  but  without 
prejudice  to  the  right  which  the  owner  thereof  may  have  to 
recover  the  same  from  any  lessee  or  other  person  liable  for 
repairs : Provided,  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  au- 

thorize the  recovery  by  the  lessor  of  the  lessee  of  the  cost 
which  may  have  been  rendered  necessary  through  the  default 
or  negligence  of  the  lessor,  or  through  want  of  repair  or  de- 
fects existing  in  said  premises  at  the  commencement  of  the 
lease. 

Upon  citation  to  the  owner  or  lessee  of  any  structure  al- 
leged to  be  unsafe  by  the  inspector  of  buildings,  if  the  owner 
or  other  interested  party,  being  notified  thereof  in  writing, 
shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  cause  said  structure  to  be  taken 
down  or  otherwise  made  safe,  said  owner,  or  other  interested 
party,  shall  forfeit  to  the  use  of  the  town,  for  every  day’s 
continuance  of  said  refusal  or  neglect,  a sum  of  fifty  dollars. 
Any  owner  or  other  interested  person  aggrieved  by  any 
order  made  by  the  inspector  of  buildings  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section  may,  within  three  days  after  the  ser- 
vice thereof  upon  him,  apply  to  the  superior  court,  if  sitting 
in  the  county,  or  to  any  justice  thereof  in  vacation,  for  a 
jury  trial,  and  the  court  or  justice  thereof  shall  issue  a war- 
rant for  a jury,  to  be  impanneled  by  the  sheriff  within  four- 


RELATING  TO  THE  TOWN. 


teen  days  from  the  date  of  the  warrant ; which  jury  may  af- 
firm, annul,  or  alter  such  order,  and  the  sheriff  shall  return 
the  verdict  to  the  court,  if  in  session,  and  if  not  in  session,  to 
the  next  term  thereof,  for  acceptance,  and  if  accepted  it  shall 
take  effect  as  an  original  order.  If  the  order  is  affirmed, 
costs  shall  be  taxed  against  the  applicant ; if  it  is  annulled,  the 
applicant  shall  recover  such  damages  as  the  jury  may  award 
him,  and  costs  against  the  town;  if  it  is  altered  in  part,  the 
court  may  render  such  judgment  as  to  damages  and  costs  as 
justice  may  require. 

Nothing  contained  in  the  preceding  section  shall  be  con- 
strued to  bar  the  rights  of  the  town  to  recover  the  penalty 
enacted  for  the  continuance  of  the  refusal  or  neglect  of  the 
owner  or  other  interested  party  to  cause  the  structure  in 
question  to  be  taken  down  or  otherwise  made  safe,  unless  the 
order  is  annulled  by  the  jury. 

In  case  the  building  or  structure  alleged  to  be  unsafe  shall 
be  in  the  process  of  erection,  alteration,  or  repair,  the  su- 
perior court,  or  any  justice  thereof,  either  in  term  time  Or 
vacation,  upon  application  may  issue  forthwith  an  injunction 
restraining  further  progress  in  the  work  on  said  building 
until  the  facts  of  the  case  shall  have  been  investigated  and 
determined  as  hereinbefore  provided. 

If  any  building  shall  appear,  upon  examination  by  the  in- 
spector of  buildings,  to  be  especially  dangerous,  in  case  of 
fire,  by  reason  of  insufficient  thickness  of  walls,  overloaded 
floors,  defective  construction,  or  other  causes,  such  building 
shall  be  held  and  taken  to  be  unsafe  within  the  meaning  of, 
and  subject  to,  all  the  provisions  of  this  act;  and  the  inspec- 
tor of  buildings,  besides  proceeding  as  hereinbefore  provided, 
may  affix  a notice  of  the  unsafe  character  of  the  structure 
to  a conspicuous  place  on  the  exterior  wall  of  said  building. 

Upon  complaint,  the  inspector  shall  examine  any  hotel, 
boarding,  lodging,  tenement,  or  apartment  house,  mill,  manu- 
factory, office,  workshop  having  employees  on  any  story 
above  second  story,  or  church  now  erected,  and  shall  require 
such  building  to  be  provided  with  proper  and  sufficient  fire 


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escapes,  stairways,  and  exits  constructed  as  described  in  this 
act ; but  in  all  such  buildings,  except  factories,  mills,  manu- 
factories, and  workshops,  stud  partitions  already  built  shall 
be  exempt  from  the  requirements  hereof.  The  inspector 
shall  further  examine  all  other  buildings,  for  public  assembly, 
already  built,  and  also  boiler-houses  and  rooms,  and  their 
heating  apparatus,  now  built,  and  if  in  his  judgment  the 
safety  of  the  public  requires  it,  he  shall  require  that  the  same 
be  made  to  conform  to  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

All  wooden  buildings  except  coal  or  grain  elevators  and 
wooden  buildings  built  on  wharves,  piers,  or  bulkheads,  if 
built  within  five  feet  of  an  adjoining  lot  line,  or  an  adjoining 
building,  shall  have  the  external  wall  on  such  side  or  sides 
built  of  brick  at  least  eight  inches  thick,  or  the  space  between 
the  studding  filled  in  flush  full  with  brick  and  mortar,  or  some 
other  equally  incombustible  material ; this  provision  shall 
not  apply  to  dwelling-houses  constructed  within  five  feet  of 
an  adjoining  lot  line,  when  no  building  exists  upon  such  ad- 
joining lot  within  ten  feet  of  the  proposed  dwelling-house. 
Party  walls  or  division  walls  between  adjoining  houses, 
thirty-five  feet  or  more  in  height,  shall  be  of  brick  not  less 
than  twelve  inches  thick  to  the  top  of  the  second  floor  above 
the  street  and  eight  inches  thick  for  the  remaining  height ; 
such  walls  less  than  thirty-five  feet  in  height  may  be  eight 
inches  thick  for  the  entire  height. 

Sex.  23.  Every  brick  building  and  all  wooden  buildings, 
except  dwelling-houses,  shall  have  a fire-stop  of  incom- 
bustible material  at  each  floor,  from  the  bottom  of  the  floor 
joist  to  three  inches  above  the  top  of  the  same.  Said  fire- 
stop  at  each  floor  shall  fill  the  spaces  full  between  the  stud- 
ding and  furring  entirely  around  the  external  walls  of  the 
building  and  through  the  interior  wherever  the  floor  joists 
have  a bearing.  All  dwelling-houses  shall  have  a fire-stop 
similar  to  the  above  at  the  first  floor.  Said  dwelling-houses 
at  each  floor  above  the  first  shall  have  a smoke-stop  of  wood 
the  full  depth  of  studding  and  not  less  than  two  inches  thick. 
An  incombustible  fire-stop  shall  be  put  around  all  vertical 


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8l 


piping  at  each  floor.  All  ventilating  ducts  or  pipes  shall  be 
of  incombustible  material.  No  building  shall  be  covered  by 
lathing,  sheathing,  or  otherwise  until  the  inspector  of  build- 
ings has  by  examination  ascertained  that  said  building  is  in 
compliance  with  the  above  provisions.  Said  inspector  shall 
be  notified  by  the  owner  or  duly  authorized  agent,  or  by  the 
builder,  whenever  any  building  is  ready  for  inspection. 

Sec.  24.  No  person  shall  obstruct  any  street  in  said  town, 
or  any  part  thereof,  by  building  or  placing  therein  any  tem- 
porary or  permanent  structure,  or  any  portion  of  such  struc- 
ture, except  in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  this  act. 
Any  person  thus  obstructing  any  street  as  aforesaid,  or  aid- 
ing or  assisting  therein,  shall  be  fined  twenty  dollars  for 
every  such  obstruction,  and  shall  also  be  fined  not  exceeding 
twenty  dollars  for  each  day  that  such  obstruction  shall  con- 
tinue. 

Sec.  25.  In  all  cases  where,' by  the  provision  of  this  act, 
notice  is  required  to  be  given,  such  notice  shall  be  served  by 
posting  a written  or  printed  copy  thereof  on  the  premises 
concerned,  and  either  leaving  a duplicate  copy  thereof  at  the 
usual  place  of  abode  of  the  party  interested,  if  within  the 
town,  or  by  mailing  such  duplicate  in  a registered  letter  to 
the  usual  address  of  said  party,  if  residing  without  the  town, 
or  publishing  the  said  notice  for  three  successive  days  in  the 
newspapers  employed  to  do  the  town  printing.  Any  notice 
served  upon  the  architect  or  other  duly  authorized  agent  in 
charge  of  any  building  or  estate  shall  be  binding  upon  the 
owners  thereof. 

Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  act  wherein  no 
penalty  is  herein  otherwise  prescribed  shall  be  fined  twenty 
dollars  for  every  violation  thereof,  and  shall  be  fined  not  ex- 
ceeding twenty  dollars  for  each  day’s  continuance  of  the  said 
violation  after  the  service  of  the  warrant  issued  upon  the 
first  complaint. 

The  superior  court,  or  any  justice  thereof  in  vacation,  may 
restrain  by  injunction  any  violation  of  this  act,  and  may,  ac- 
cording to  the  course  of  equity,  secure  the  fulfillment  and 


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Railroad  sta- 
tion, East 
Providence. 


To  be  10  feet 
above  street. 


execution  of  the  provisions  thereof. 

Fines  recovered  for  the  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  act  shall  be  paid  into  the  town  treasury. 

Sec.  26.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  De- 
cember first,  1909,  and  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent 
herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 


CHAPTER  485. 

Passed  May  4,  1909. 

AN  ACT  TO  ENABLE  THE  BOSTON  AND  PROVIDENCE 
RAILROAD  CORPORATION  AND  THE  NEW  YORK, 
NEW  HAVEN  AND  HARTFORD  RAILROAD  COMPANY 
TO  BUILD  AND  MAINTAIN  A PASSENGER  STATION 
OVER  AND  ACROSS  BOSTON  STREET  IN  THE  TOWN 
OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

It  is  enacted  by 'the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  Boston  and  Providence  Railroad  Corpo- 
ration, owner  of  the  railroad  and  estate  on  the  westerly  side 
of  Boston  street  in  the  town  of  East  Providence,  and  the 
New  York,  New  Haven  and  Hartford  Railroad  Company, 
owner  of  the  estate  at  the  northeasterly  corner  of  said  Bos- 
ton street  and  Warren  avenue,  sometimes  called  Watchemo- 
ket  square,  and  lessee  of  said  railroad  and  estate  of  said  Bos- 
ton and  Providence  Railroad  Corporation,  their  respective 
successors  and  assigns,  are  hereby  authorized  and  empow- 
ered, provided  the  town  council  of  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence shall  consent  thereto,  and  upon  such  terms  and  condi- 
tions as  said  town  council  may  prescribe,  to  build  and  main- 
tain a railroad  passenger  station  and  its  appurtenances  over 
and  across  said  Boston  street  in  said  town  between  their 
said  estates : Provided,  that  every  part  of  such  station  over 
said  street  shall  be  at  least  ten  feet  above  the  present  surface 
of  said  street. 

Sec.  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


k ELATING  TO  THE  TOWN. 


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CHAPTER  48G. 

Passed  May  7,  1909. 

AN  ACT  IN  RELATION  TO  SIDEWALKS  IN  THE  TOWN  OF 
EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  town  council  of  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  superintend, 
order,  and  direct  the  manner  of  building,  altering,  and 
amending  sidewalks  in  the  streets  and  highways  in  said 
town,  and  to  order  and  determine  of  what  height  and  width 
the  same  shall  be,  and  of  what  materials  the  walks  shall  be 
composed,  and  how  and  with  what  secured  and  finished ; with 
power  to  alter  and  improve  those  already  made  in  such  way 
and  manner  as  the  said  council  thinks  the  public  convenience 
requires ; to  build  or  alter  any  wall  on  any  land  adjoining  the 
street,  and  to  remove  any  steps,  posts,  cellar  doors,  or  other 
obstructions  in  the  sidewalks ; and  all  the  above  may  be  done 
at  the  expense  of  the  owners  of  the  adjoining  lands. 

Sec.  2.  When  the  said  town  council  shall  have  deter- 
mined in  what  manner,  and  of  what  materials,  and  within 
what  time  any  new  sidewalk  shall  be  made,  or  in  what 
manner  and  within  what  time  any  old  sidewalk  shall  be  al- 
tered and  improved,  it  shall  cause  written  or  printed  notice 
thereof  to  be  personally  given  to  the  owner  of  the  adjoining 
land,  if  residing  in  the  town  of  East  Providence,  particularly 
describing  the  materials,  width,  height,  and  manner  the  side- 
walk shall  be  built  or  the  alteration  be  made ; but  if  the 
owner  shall  not  reside  in  said  town,  then  the  notice  shall  be 
given  to  the  tenant  in  possession ; but  if  no  tenant  shall  be  in 
possession,  then  the  same  shall  be  advertised,  in  some  news- 
paper published  in  the  county  of  Providence,  at  least  once  a 
week  for  three  successive  weeks,  and  a copy  of  said  notice 
shall  also  be  sent  by  mail  to  the  owner’s  place  of  residence,  if 
known;  at  the  expiration  of  the  time  so  limited,  if  the  work 
shall  not  have  been  performed  or  proceeded  in  accordance  to 
the  directions  in  said  notice  contained,  said  town  council 


Authority  of 
town  council 
over  sidewalks 


Notice  person- 
ally or  by  ad- 
vertisement. 


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acts  ot  the:  general  asse:mbty 


In  case  owner 

disregards 

notice. 


Inspection  by 
surveyors  of 
highways. 


shall,  in  its  discretion,  order  the  surveyor  of  highways  for  the 
time  being,  in  whose  highway  district  said  sidewalk  is  situ- 
ated, to  proceed,  at  the  expense  of  the  town,  and  execute  the 
directions  so  by  said  town  council  given  to  the  owner,  a 
copy  of  which  order  shall  be  by  it  given  to  said  surveyor ; 
and  when  the  same  shall  be  by  him  accomplished,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  said  town  council  to  certify  the  expenses 
thereof  to  the  assessors  of  taxes  for  said  town,  together  with 
ten  per  cent,  in  addition  thereto  to  cover  the  interest,  cost  of 
assessing  and  collection ; and  the  said  sum  so  certified  shall 
be  by  the  assessors  added  to  the  tax  of  the  owner  of  such  ad- 
joining land  so  neglecting  as  aforesaid;  which  proceedings 
shall  be  conclusive ; and  the  said  owner,  with  his  estate,  shall 
be  responsible  therefor  in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same 
extent  as  for  other  taxes.  And  all  societies,  organizations, 
and  corporations  owning  real  estate  in  said  town,  with  the 
estates  by  them  owned,  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  regula- 
tions and  liable  for  the  same  charges,  costs,  expenses,  and 
assessments,  in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as 
are  private  individuals,  notwithstanding  they  may  be  exempt 
from  taxation  in  other  respects ; notice  being  given  to  the 
treasurer,  or  the  person  performing  the  duties  of  treasurer, 
of  any  such  society,  organization,  or  corporation  . 

Sex.  3.  Any  sidewalk  which  may  be  hereafter  built,  al- 
tered, or  repaired  by  the  owner  of  the  adjoining  land  shall, 
in  the  discretion  of  said  town  council,  be  done  under  the  in- 
spection of  the  surveyor  of  highways  for  the  time  being,  in 
whose  highway  district  said  sidewalk  is  situated,  and  in  pur- 
suance of  the  directions  given  by  the  said  town  council  for 
that  purpose. 

Se;c.  4.  The  said  town  council  is  further  authorized  and 
empowered  to  make  such  ordinances,  orders,  directions, 
rules,  and  regulations  as  are  deemed  by  it  to  be  necessary  to 
carry  the  provisions  of  this  act  into  effect,  provided  the  same 
be  not  in  violation  of  or  repugnant  to  the  laws  of  this  state. 

Sex.  5.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


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85 


CHAPTER  568. 

Approved  April  27,  1910. 

AN  ACT  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE  APPOINTMENT  OF  AND 
TO  DEFINE  THE  POWERS  AND  DUTIES  OF  A STATE 
HARBOR  IMPROVEMENT  COMMISSION  FOR  THE  AC- 
QUIREMENT AND  IMPROVEMENT  BY  THE  STATE  OF 
SHORE  PROPERTY  IN  PROVIDENCE,  PAWTUCKET, 
AND  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 


CHAPTER  569. 

Approved  April  27,  1910. 


AN  ACT  TO  CONDEMN  CERTAIN  LAND  BY  THE  STATE 
FOR  METROPOLITAN  PARK  PURPOSES. 


CHAPTER  610. 

Approved  April  7,  1910. 

AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  CHAPTER  886  OF  THE  PUB- 
LIC LAWS,  PASSED  AT  THE  JANUARY  SESSION,  1901, 
ENTITLED  “AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN 
COUNCIL  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  TO 
APPOINT  AN  INSPECTOR  OF  PLUMBING  AND  DRAIN- 
AGE AND  MAKE  ORDINANCES  REGULATING  THE 
PLUMBING  AND  DRAINAGE  OF  BUILDINGS  WITHIN 
SAID  TOWN.” 

It  is  enacted  by 'the  General  Assembly  as  follozvs: 

Section  1.  Section  2 of  Chapter  886  of  the  Public  Laws, 
passed  at  the  January  session,  1901,  entitled  “An  act  au- 
thorizing the  town  council  of  the  town  of  East  Providence  to 
appoint  an  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage  and  make 
ordinances  regulating  the  plumbing  and  drainage  of  build- 


86 


ACTS  OP  The:  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY 


Town  council 
of  East  Provi- 
dence may  li- 
cense plumbers 
and  drain  layers 
and  charge  fee. 


Town  council 
may  make  or- 
dinances pro- 
viding for  in- 
spection and 
regulation  of 
plumbing  and 
drainage. 


ings  within  said  town,”  is  hereby  amended  so  as  .to  read  as 
follows : 

“SEC.  2.  The  town  council  of  said  town  is  hereby  author- 
ized to  issue  licenses  to  plumbers  and  drainlayers,  to  charge 
and  collect  fees  for  such  licenses,  not  to  exceed  fifty  dollars 
for  any  one  license  for  any  one  year,  to  define  their  duties, 
and  to  require  them  to  give  bond,  with  surety  or  sureties  in 
such  amount  as  the  said  council  may  by  ordinance  provide, 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  said  duties.” 

Sec.  2.  Section  3 of  said  Chapter  88G  of  the  Public  Laws 
is  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

“SEC.  3.  The  town  council  of  said  town  may  make  such 
ordinances,  rules,  and  regulations  respecting  the  drainage 
and  plumbing  of  all  buildings  hereafter  erected  in  said  town, 
and  respecting  any  new  or  additional  drainage  and  plumbing 
and  additions  to  and  alterations  of  existing  drainage  and 
plumbing  of  all  buildings  heretofore  or  hereafter  erected  in 
said  town,  as  said  council  may  deem  necessary  for  the  pre- 
servation of  the  public  health ; and  may  provide  by  ordinance 
that  no  building  shall  be  erected  in  said  town,  and  no  such 
drainage  and  plumbing,  additions  and  alterations  shall  be 
constructed  or  made,  unless  the  plans  of  such  drainage  and 
plumbing,  additions  and  alterations,  shall  conform  to  said 
ordinances,  rules,  and  regulations,  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the 
inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage,  and  be  approved  in 
writing  by  *said  inspector ; and  said  town  council  may  further 
provide  for  the  inspection  of  all  plumbing  and  drainage  in 
said  town,  may  charge  and  collect  fees  for  the  permits  issued 
by  the  said  inspector  for  plumbing  and  drainage  work,  and 
may  affix  penalties  of  not  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  the 
violation  of  any  rule,  regulation,  or  provision  of  any  ordi- 
nance made  in  accordance  with  this  act.” 

Sec.  3.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  imuediately. 


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CHAPTER  640. 

Approved  August  22,  1910. 

AN  ACT  DIVIDING  THE  CITIES  AND  CERTAIN  TOWNS 
OF  THE  STATE  INTO  REPRESENTATIVE  DISTRICTS 
AND  CARRYING  INTO  EFFECT  ARTICLE  XIII  OF 
AMENDMENTS- TO  THE  CONSTITUTION. 


CHAPTER  746. 

Approved  April  26,  1911. 

AN  ACT  IN  RELATION  TO  THE  HOLDING  OF  CAUCUSES 
IN  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  In  the  town  of  East  Providence,  the  caucuses 
of  all  -political  parties  shall  be  held  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  and  such,  provisions  shall  apply  only 
in  said  town.  For  the  purposes  of  this  act,  a political  party 
is  hereby  defined  to  be  one  which  at  the  next  preceding 
annual  election  of  state  officers  cast  for  its  candidate  for 
governor  at  least  two  per  cent,  of  all  the  votes  cast  in  the 
state  for  that  officer.  Caucus  and  convention  nominations 
shall  be  made  only  by  political  parties. 

SEC.  2.  The  qualified  electors  of  each  political  party  in 
said  town  shall  annually,  at  the  caucus  held  to  elect  dele- 
gates to  the  convention  to  nominate  a candidate  for  gover- 
nor, elect  a town  committee  for  such  town.  Each  town  com- 
mittee shall,  within  ten  days  after  its  organization,  file  with 
the  secretary  of  state  a list  of  its  officers  and  members.  The 
general  management  of  the  affairs  of  each  political  party  in 
such  town  shall  be  vested  in  its  town  committee,  subject  to 
the  rules  and  regulations  which  the  state  committee  of  such 
political  party  shall  make.  Any  vacancy  occurring  in  any  of 
the  offices  or  in  the  membership  of  said  town  committee  shall 
be  filled  by  such  committee.  A statement  thereof  shall  be 


Political  party 
defined. 


Method  of  elect- 
ing town  com- 
mittee, and 
powers  and 
duties  thereof. 


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ACTS  OE  THE  GENERA!,  ASSEMBLY 


Caucuses,  how 
called. 


Town  clerk  to 
be  notified  of 
date  of  caucus 
and  to  furnish 
polling-places 
therefor. 


filed  as  in  the  case  of  officers  and  members  first  chosen. 
Town  committees  shall  hold  office  from  the  date  of  their 
election  until  the  next  annual  election  of  such  committees 
and  thereafter  until  their  successors  have  organized.  Town 
committees  may  make  regulations,  not  inconsistent  with  law, 
to  determine  membership  in  the  party  and  to  restrain  those 
not  entitled  to  vote  at  caucuses  called  by  them  from  taking 
part  therein,  and  such  regulations  shall  be  furnished  to  and 
shall  govern  the  officers  by  this  act  charged  with  the  duty  of 
preparing  caucus  voting  lists  in  the  preparation  of  such  lists, 
so  far  as  they  are  not  in  conflict  with  the  provisions  of  this 
act.  Each  town  committee  shall  attend  the  caucuses  of  the 
party  to  which  it  belongs,  to  perform  the  duties  herein  im- 
posed upon  it. 

Sec.  3.  All  caucuses  shall  be  held  in  said  town  at  the  call 
of  the  town  committee  of  the  political  party  holding  such 
caucuses.  The  call  for  such  caucuses  shall  be  issued  not 
less  than  five  days  prior  to  the  day  on  which  they  are  to  be 
held.  It  shall  state  the  places  where  such  caucuses  are  to 
be  held,  the  hour  of  holding  the  same,  the  time  during  which 
the  polls  are  to  be  open,  the  business  to  be  transacted  thereat 
and  the  uniform  size  of  the  ballots  to  be  used  in  said  caucus, 
and  said  call  shall  be  posted,  at  least  four  days  prior  to  the 
holding  of  said  caucus,  in  six  or  more  public  places  in  said 
town.  No  two  political  parties  shall  hold  their  caucuses  on 
the  same  day. 

Sec.  4.  At  least  ten  days  previous  to  the  date  on  which 
a political  party  desires  to  hold  its  caucuses  in  said  town  the 
chairman  of  the  town  committee  of  such  political  party  shall 
notify  in  writing,  the  town  clerk  of  the  date  selected  for  such 
caucuses,  and  the  political  party  first  making  such  selection 
and  notification  for  a certain  date  shall  be  entitled  to  hold  its 
caucuses  on  that  date,  if  such  date  is  one  on  which  caucuses 
may  be  lawfully  held.  If  such  date  is  one  previously  so 
selected  and  notified  by  some  other  political  party,  or  is  one 
on  which  cacuses  may  not  be  lawfully  held,  such  chairman 
shall  be  immediately  notified,  in  writing,  of  the  fact  by  the 


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89 


town  clerk,  and  such  chairman  shall  select  and  make  notifica- 
tion of  another  date.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  town  clerk, 
in  and  at  the  expense  of  said  town  of  East  Providence,  to 
provide  a polling  place  in  said  town  for  said  caucus,  and  to 
notify  in  writing  such  chairman  as  to  the  place  so  provided, 
at  least  seven  days  prior  to  the  date  of  such  caucuses. 

Sec.  5.  No  caucus,  except  a caucus  adjourned  under  the 
provisions  of  section  fourteen  of  this  act,  shall  be  held  within 
two  days,  exclusive  of  Sundays  and  legal  holidays,  of  the  last 
day  for  filing  the  certificate  of  the  nominations  of  such 
caucus,  nor  shall  any  political  party  hold  caucuses  on  suc- 
cessive days.  All  caucuses,  excepting  those  caucuses  neces- 
sary for  a special  election,  shall  be  held  after  the  second 
Thursday  next  after  the  first  Monday  in  September  of  each 
year.  All  caucuses  held  to  nominate  candidates  for  town 
officers  in  said  town,  excepting  those  caucuses  necessary  for 
a special  election,  shall  be  held  within  twenty-five  days  of 
the  Tuesday  next  after  the  first  Monday  in  November  in 
each  year.  Caucuses  necessary  for  a special  election  shall 
be  held  not  more  than  ten  days  before,  nor  within  two  days, 
exclusive  of  Sundays  and  legal  holidays,  of  the  last  day  for 
filing  the  certificates  of  the  nominations  of  such  caucuses. 

SEC.  (5.  The  town  committee  of  each  political  party  in 
said  town  shall,  at  least  two  days  prior  to  the  date  of  the 
caucus,  appoint  a caucus  chairman  and  a caucus  clerk  for 
each  voting  district  thereof,  who  shall  be  qualified  electors  of 
said  town,  representative-districts  and  voting-districts  res- 
pectively in  which  they  are  appointed  to  serve  and  members 
of  such  political  party,  and  shall  fill  all  vacancies  which  oc- 
cur in  such  offices  from  any  cause,  except  as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided. Caucus  chairmen  and  caucus  clerks  so  appointed 
shall  hold  office  until  the  first  day  of  January  next  succeed- 
ing their  appointment  and  thereafter  until  their  successors 
are  appointed  and  shall  have  the  same  powers  and  duties  in 
the  conduct  of  caucuses  as  are  conferred  by  law  upon 
wardens  and  ward  clerks  of  elective  meetings. 

Sec.  7.  The  caucus  chairman  appointed,  as  hereinbefore 


Caucuses  when 
to  be  held. 


Caucus  officers 
to  be  selected 
by  town  com- 
mittee. 


90 


ACTS  OF  THF  GFNFRAF  ASSEMBLY 


Duties  of  caucus 
officers. 


Hours  during 
which  polls 
must  remain 
open. 


provided,  shall  call  the  caucus  of  his  political  party  to  order, 
and  shall  preside  thereat.  Each  caucus  clerk  shall  check 
the  voting  list  of  the  voting-district  in  which  he  is  appointed 
to  serve.  In  case  a caucus  chairman  is  absent  at  the  time  at 
which  the  caucus  has  been  called,  or  in  case  a caucus  chair- 
man becomes  incapacitated  during  the  holding  of  the  caucus, 
the  town  committee,  or  a majority  of  the  members  thereof 
present  at  such  caucus,  shall  appoint  a qualified  elector  of 
such  party  residing  in  said  town  or  representative-district  as 
caucus  chairman  for  such  caucus.  If  no  member  of  the 
town  committee  is  present,  the  clerk  of  the  first  voting-dis- 
trict in  such  town,  or,  in  case  of  his  absence  or  incapacity, 
then  of  the  voting-district  clerks  present  the  one  next  in 
numerical  order  of  the  districts,  shall  Call  the  meeting  to 
order,  and  the  electors  present  shall  elect  some  qualified  per- 
son as  caucus  chairman  of  such  caucus.  In  case  a caucus 
clerk  is  absent  at  the  time  at  which  the  caucus  has  been  called, 
or  in  case  a caucus  clerk  becomes  incapacitated  from  per- 
forming his  duties  as  such  during  the  holding  of  the  caucus, 
the  town  committee  of  said  town,  or  such  majority  thereof, 
shall  appoint  some  qualified  elector  of  the  town  or  representa- 
tive-district as  such  caucus  clerk.  If  no  member  of  the  town 
committee  is  present,  the  caucus  chairman  shall  appoint 
some  qualified  elector  as  aforesaid  as  caucus  clerk.  All  cau- 
cuses shall  be  called  to  order  at  seven  o’clock  P.  M.,  the 
polls  shall  be  opened  at  or  before  seven-thirty  P.  M.,  and  the 
ballot  boxes  shall  be  opened  and  the  interior  thereof  ex- 
posed to  the  view  of  all  present  by  the  chairman  before  any 
ballots  are  cast.  Any  necessary  business  not  finished  at 
seven-thirty  P.  M.  shall  be  postponed  until  after  the  polls  are 
closed  and  the  result  of  the  balloting  announced.  The  polls 
shall  be  kept  open  until  ten  P.  M.,  and  no  longer.  Except 
for  the  filling  of  vacancies  in  the  office  of  caucus  chairman 
and  caucus  clerk,  as  hereinbefore  provided  in  this  section,  a 
ballot  shall  be  required  for  the  choice  of  all  candidates  for 
elective  offices,  for  delegates  to  conventions,  and  for  mem- 
bers of  town  committees,  to  be  elected  by  such  caucuses.  All 


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91 


ballots  shall  be  printed  or  written  on  white  paper,  of  uniform 
size  to  be  determined  by. the  town  committee  of  each  political 
party  in  said  town,  and  no  tissue  paper  shall  be  used  for  any 
caucus  ballot.  The  names  of  all  candidates  for  which  any 
elector  shall  vote  at  any  caucus  shall  be  written  or  printed 
upon  one  ballot. 

Sec.  8.  No  person  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  or  take  part 
in  the  caucus  of  any  political  party  who  within  fourteen 
calendar  months  has  voted  or  taken  part  in  the  caucus  of 
any  other  political  party,  or  has  signed  nomination  papers  of 
a candidate  or  candidates  for  any  elective  officer,  or  has 
voted  in  any  election  for  the  candidates  of  any  other  political 
party  or  for  candidates  placed  in  nomination  by  nomination 
papers,  or  is  debarred  from  so  voting  or  taking  part  by  the 
regulations  of  such  party  provided  for  in  section  two  of  this 
act.  No  person  who  has  voted  in  the  caucus  of  any  political 
party  shall  be  eligible  to  sign  any  nomination  paper  contain- 
ing nominations  of ' candidates  within  fourteen  calendar 
months  thereafter. 

SEC.  9.  The  town  clerk  of  said  town  shall  prepare  the 
voting  lists  for  use  at  all  caucuses  held  in  said  town.  At  all 
caucuses  the  voting  lists  as  last  published  or  canvassed  ac- 
cording to  law  by  the  board  of  canvassers  of  said  town  shall 
be  used,  corrected  as  hereinafter  provided.  The  board  of 
canvassers  in  said  town  shall  hold  a canvass  meeting  on  the 
twenty-seventh  day  preceding  the  Tuesday  next  after  the 
first  Monday  in  November  in  each  year,  and  also  on  a day 
not  more  than  five  days  prior  to  the  earliest  day  lawfully 
selected  by  any  political  party  for  the  holding  of  caucuses 
made  necessary  by  a special  election  in  such  town,  to  canvass 
and  correct  the  voting  lists  of  electors  qualified.  Notice  of 
said  canvass  meetings  shall  be  given  in  such  manner  as  such 
board  of  canvassers  shall  prescribe. 

Sec.  10.  In  preparing  caucus  voting  lists  for  the  caucuses 
of  any  political  party  there  shall  be  stricken  from  the  lists 
specified  in  section  nine  of  this  act  the  names  of  all  persons 
shown  by  the  nomination  papers,  or  copies  thereof,  and  used 


Form  of  caucus 
ballot. 


Who  may  par- 
ticipate in  cau- 
cus. 


Town  clerk  to 
prepare  voting 
lists. 


Same  subject. 


92 


ACTS  OE  THE)  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY 


Ballot  boxes 
and  supplies 


Caucus  chair- 
man to  receive 
ballots. 


Vote  how 
counted; 
plurality  to 
elect. 


Return  of  bal- 
lots and  voting- 
lists. 


caucus  voting  lists  in  the  possession  of  the  town  clerk,  to  be 
debarred  from  voting  in  such  caucuses  by  the  provisions  of 
section  eight  of  this  act,  or  who  are  shown  by  the  regula- 
tions of  such  political  party  to  be  not  entitled  to  vote  in  its 
caucuses.  Each  such  list  shall  be  endorsed  with  the  name  of 
such  political  party,  and  shall  be  certified  by  such  town  clerk. 

SEC.  11.  The  town  clerk  is  hereby  authorized  and  re- 
quired to  furnish,  at  the  expense  of  said  town,  suitable  ballot 
boxes,  blank  forms  of  certificates  and  returns,  and  other  elec- 
tion stationery,  for  each  polling  place  at  which  any  caucus 
is  held,  and  to  cause  the  voting  lists  prepared  as  aforesaid  to 
be  delivered  at  each  such  polling  place  to  the  caucus  chair- 
man, prior  to  the  hour  of  seven  o’clock  in  the  evening  of  the 
day  on  which  any  such  caucus  is  to  be  held ; and  it  is  hereby 
made  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  police  of  said  town  to  detail 
such  number  of  police  officers  to  each  such  polling  place,  for 
the  preservation  of  order,  and  to  deliver  the  voting  lists' 
aforesaid,  as  may  be  requested  by  said  town  clerk. 

Sec.  12.  The  caucus  chairman  shall  receive  the  ballots  of 
all  persons  whose  names  are  upon  the  lists  certified  and 
furnished  to  him,  and  shall  reject  the  ballots  of  all  other  per- 
sons. 

Sec.  13.  Immediately  on  the  closing  of  the  polls  the 
caucus  chairman  and  clerks  shall  in  open  caucus  proceed  to 
count  the  ballots  cast  in  the  presence  of  such  representatives 
as  may  be  appointed  in  writing,  one  by  each  candidate  voted 
for  at  said  caucus ; and  each  candidate  receiving  a plurality 
of  the  ballots  cast  for  the  office  for  which  he  was  a candidate 
shall  be  declared  by  the  caucus  chairman  to  be  elected  or 
nominated,  as  the  case  may  be.  The  ballots  and  voting  lists 
shall  then  be  forthwith  separately  sealed  up,  together  with  a 
statement  of  the  result  of  the  balloting,  substantially  in  form 
required  by  law  in  the  case  of  elective  meetings,  and  shall 
be  forthwith  delivered  in  person  by  the  caucus  clerk  of  the 
first  voting-district  to  the  town  clerk  in  said  town. 

Sec.  14.  In  case  at  any  caucus  a majority  of  a delegation 
to  any  convention,  or  of  any  town  committee,  are  not  elected, 


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or  in  case  of  a tie  vote  for  any  candidate  for  an  elective 
office,  the  caucus  shall  adjourn  to  such  day  as  shall  be  desig- 
nated at  said  caucus  by  the  caucus  chairman,  but  not  to  any 
day  at  which  a caucus  of  any  political  party  has  been  called. 
In  case  of  a tie  vote  for  a smaller  number  than  a majority 
of  the  delegates  to  a convention,  or  of  the  members  of  a 
town  committee,  the  elected  members  of  the  delegation  or  of 
the  committee  shall  fill  the  vacancies  so  caused  and  make  no- 
tification of  their  action  to  the  person  or  officer  entitled  to 
receive  the  same.  In  all  cases  the  delegates  to  a convention 
shall  have  power  to  fill  vacancies  in  their  number  appearing 
at  the  hour  of  the  meeting  of  such  convention. 

SEC.  15.  The  chairman  of  every  caucus  shall,  within 
twenty-four  hours  after  said  caucus  is  held,  deliver  or  send 
to  each  delegate  to  a political  convention,  and  to  each  member 
of  a political  committee,  a certificate  of  his  election,  and  to 
each  candidate  for  an  elective  office  a certificate  of  his 
nomination,  and  shall  also  cause  the  certificate  of  nomination 
required  by  law  in  the  case  of  all  candidates  who  are  nomi- 
nated by  such  caucus  for  any  elective  office  to  be  prepared 
and  seasonably  filed  in  the  proper  public  office,  unless  pro- 
ceedings for  a recount  of  the  ballots  cast  at  such  caucus  are 
inaugurated  conformably  to  the  provision  of  section  sixteen 
of  this  act,  in  which  case  he  shall  not  deliver,  send,  or  cause 
to  be  filed  any  such  certificates.  Upon  each  check  list  used 
at  such  caucus  the  clerk  checking  such  list  shall  make  a re- 
turn under  oath  that  the  said  check  list  is  the  identical  one 
used  in  the  caucus  of  the  political  party  for  which  it  was 
furnished,  and  that  the  names  checked  were'  truly  and  prop- 
erly checked  at  such  caucus,  and  that  no  alteration  or  eras- 
ure or  additional  check  has  been  made  thereon. 

Sec.  16.  If  before  five  o’clock  in  the  afternoon  of  the  day 
succeeding  the  day  on  which  any  caucus  is  held  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act  a person  who  has  received  votes  thereat 
for  nomination  or  election  to  any  elective  office,  delegation, 
or  political  committee  shall  serve  upon  the  town  clerk  of  said 
town  a statement  in  writing  that  the  records  and  returns 


In  case  of  tie 
vote,  etc.,  what 
action  to  be 
taken. 


Chairman  to 
prepare  certi- 
ficates of  elec- 
tion and  nomin- 
ation. 


Verification  of 
check-list  by- 
clerk. 


Provision  for 
recount  of 
ballots. 


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ACTS  OF  THF  CFNFRAIv  ASSEMBLY 


Notice  of  re- 
count. 


Method  of  re- 
count and  hear- 
ing thereon. 


Recount  to  be 
conclusive,  and 
official  ballots 
to  be  prepared 
accordingly. 


made  by  the  caucus  officers,  as  aforesaid,  are  erroneous,  and 
specifying  wherein  the  same  are  erroneous,  and  claiming  an 
election  or  nomination  by  said  caucus  for  the  petitioner,  and 
petitioning  for  a recount  of  such  ballots  by  the  board  of  can- 
vassers of  said  town,  such  town  clerk  shall  retain  all  the 
ballots  cast  at  such  caucus  until  such  claim  is  withdrawn  or 
the  contest  for  the  nomination  or  election  is* fully  determined 
as  hereinafter  provided.  The  town  clerk  upon  whom  such 
statement  is  served  shall  forthwith  notify  the  members  of 
the  board  of  canvassers  of  his  town  of  the  filing  of  such  pe- 
tition, and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  board  of  canvassers  to 
forthwith  convene,  and  to  cause  notice  in  writing  to  be 
served,  in  such  manner  as  said  board  of  canvassers  shall 
direct,  upon  all  other  candidates  for  the  same  office  receiving 
votes  at  said  caucus,  at  the  expense  of  the  petitioner,  of  the 
filing  of  such  petitions  for  a recount,  and  shall  appoint  a 
time  and  place  for  the  recount  of  said  ballots  within  twenty- 
four  hours,  exclusive  of  Sundays  and  legal  holidays,  from 
the  time  of  ordering  such  notice.  At  the  time  specified  by 
said  board  of  canvassers  said  town  clerk  shall  transmit  to 
such  board  all  the  ballots  cast  at  such  caucus  and  the  voting 
list  used  thereat,  and  at  the  appointed  time  and  place  said 
board  of  canvassers  shall  proceed  to  recount  said  ballots  and 
to  hear  and  determine  all  questions  raised  for  or  against  the 
counting  of  the  same  or  of  any  thereof,  and  shall  declare,  as 
the  result  of  such  recount  and  determination,  what  persons, 
if  any,  were  lawfully  elected  or  nominated  at  such  caucus. 
Such  declaration  shall  stand  as  the  true  record  and  result  of 
the  vote  cast  at  such  caucus,  and  the  proper  officer  shall 
cause  the  names  of  the  persons  so  declared  to  be  nominated 
for  any  elective  office  to  be  printed  upon  the  official  ballots, 
in  accordance  with  a certificate  of  such  recount  and  deter- 
mination made  and  filed  with  him  by  said  board,  which  cer- 
tificate shall  be  deemed  to  be  made  and  filed  as  of  the  day  of 
holding  such  caucus.  Said  board  shall  also  furnish  to  each 
delegate  and  member  of  a committee,  so  declared  to  be 
elected,  a certificate  of  his  election.  Any  candidate  receiv- 


RELATING  TO  THE  TOWN. 


95 


ing  votes  at  such  caucus  for  such  nomination  or  office  may  be 
present  during  such  recount,  either  in  person  or  by  an  agent 
duly  appointed  in  writing. 

Sec.  17.  The  town  clerk  of  said  town  shall  retain  under 
seal  for  the  period  of  fourteen  calendar  months  all  of  the 
voting  lists  returned  to  him  under  the  provisions  of  this  act: 
Provided,  that  such  lists  may  be  unsealed  for  use  in  the  pro- 
ceedings provided  for  in  sections  ten  and  sixteen  of  this-  act, 
after  which  they  shall  be  immediately  resealed,  and  that  the 
said  town  clerk,  after  a check  list  has  been  used  at  a caucus 
of  a political  party  held  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  upon 
written  application  for  a copy  of  the  list  as  checked,  signed 
by  any  qualified  elector  in  the  said  town  where  such  list  was 
used,  and  upon  payment  or  tender  of  the  fees  provided  by 
law  therefor,  may  unseal  and  open  the  wrapper  containing 
such  check  list,  and  shall  furnish  to  such  applicant  a certified 
copy  of  the  list  as  checked,  and  shall  then  reseal  the  same. 

Sec.  18.  Every  public  officer  or  officer  of  a political  party 
who  shall  willfully  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  or 
shall  refuse,  or  willfully  neglect  and  omit,  to  perform,  in  the 
manner  and  within  the  time  prescribed,  any  duty  imposed  up- 
on him  by  this  act,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  fifteen  nor  more 
than  fifty /dollars,  or  imprisoned  in  jail  for  a period  not  ex- 
ceeding thirty  days,  or  both.  Every  person  at  a caucus  who, 
knowing  that  he  is  not  entitled  to  vote,  votes  or  attempts  to 
vote,  or  votes  or  attempts  to  vote  upon  any  other  name  than 
his  own,  or  votes  or  attempts  to  vote  more  than  once  upon 
his  own  name,  or  deposits  or  attempts  to  deposit  more  than 
one  ballot  for  any  candidate  for  any  elective  office  or  dele- 
gate, to  any  convention  or  member  of  any  political  committee 
at  the  same  balloting,  or  at  any  caucus  gives  a false  answer 
to  any  caucus  clerk  or  the  presiding  officer  of  any  caucus 
relative  to  his  right  to  vote  at  such  caucus,  shall  be  punished 
by  imprisonment  in  jail  not  exceeding  thirty  days.  Whoever 
aids  or  abets  a person  not  entitled  to  vote  at  a caucus  in 
voting  or  attempting  to  vote  under  a name  other  than  the 
voter’s  own  name,  or  in  voting  twice  upon  the  voter’s  own 


Candidate  or 
his  representa- 
tive may  be  rep- 
resented at  re- 
count. 


Town  clerk  to 
retain  under 
seal  all  used 
voting  lists,  for 
what  period. 


Lists  may  be 
unsealed,  when. 


Penalties. 


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Arrest  without 
warrant. 


Secretary  of 
state  to  furnish 
copies  of  cer- 
tain nomination 
papers. 


Town  commit- 
tees elect,  to 
serve. 


name,  or  aids  or  abets  a person  in  depositing  or  attempting 
to  deposit  at  a caucus  more  than  one  ballot  as  aforesaid  at 
the  same  balloting,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  m jail 
not  exceeding  thirty  days.  Whoever  willfully  alters,  or  will- 
fully makes  any  change,  erasure,  or  additional  check  upon 
the  voting  list  used  or  to  be  used  at  a caucus,  or,  having 
custody  or  control  of  such  voting  list,  shall  suffer  or  permit 
any  alteration,  change,  erasure,  or  additional  check  to  be 
made  upon  such  voting  list,  shall  be  punished  by  imprison- 
ment in  jail  not  exceeding  sixty  days.  Excepting  otherwise 
herein  provided,  the  penalties  imposed  by  law  upon  election 
and  other  officers  and  voters  who  violate  the  provisions  of 
acts  regulating  elective  meetings  are  hereby  imposed  upon  the 
same  and  like  caucus  and  other  officers  and  voters  for  the 
same  and  like  violations  of  this  act. 

Sec.  19.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  police  or  other  peace 
officer  or  constable  to  arrest  without  warrant  any  person  de- 
tected in  the  act  of  violating  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Sec.  20.  The  secretary  of  state  shall  make  and  send  to 
the  town  clerk  of  said  town  copies  of  all  nomination  papers 
filed  with  him  which  contain  the  names  of  electors  of  such 
town. 

Sec.  21.  The  town  committees  elect  in  said  town  at  the 
time  of  the  passage  of  this  act  shall  organize  and  serve  in  the 
same  manner  and  with  the  same  effect  as  if  they  had  been 
elected  under  its  provisions. 

Sec.  22.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 


CHAPTER  747. 

Approved  May  2,  1911. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ISSUE  BONDS  FOR  SCHOOL  PURPOSES. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  au- 


relating  To  The  town. 


97 


thorized  and  empowered  to  issue  bonds  under  its  corporate 
name  and  seal,  in  addition  to  the  bonds  heretofore  author- 
ized, to  the  amount  of  seventy-five  thousand  dollars.  Said 
bonds  shall  be  of  a denomination  of  not  less  than  one  hun- 
dred nor  more  than  five  thousand  dollars  each,  shall  bear  in- 
terest at  a rate  not  exceeding  five  per  centum  per  annum, 
payable  semi-annually,  and  the  principal  and  interest  thereof 
shall  be  payable  in  gold  coin  of  the  United  States  of  America 
of  the  present  standard  of  weight  and  fineness.  Said  bonds 
shall  become  due  and  payable  in  not  to  exceed  forty  years 
from  the  date  of  their  issue,  and  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said 
town  in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  other 
debts  lawfully  contracted  by  said  town. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  bonds  shall  be  issued  and  sold  by  the 
town  council  o-f  said  town  at  such  times,  in  such  amounts,  at 
such  rate  of  interest,  in  such  manner,  in  such  form  or  other- 
wise, and  maturing  at  such  dates,  as  the  said  town  council 
may  authorize  and  direct,  but  not  to  exceed  in  the  date  of 
their  maturity  forty  years  from  the  date  of  their  issue,  nor  to 
exceed  in  the  rate  of  their  interest  five  per  centum  per  annum, 
payable  semi-annually,  nor  to  exceed  in  amount  the  sum  of 
seventy-five  thousand  dollars  in  addition  to  the  bonds  here- 
tofore authorized.  If  the  said  bonds  are  issued  and  sold  in 
serial  form  not  more  than  three  thousand  dollars  in  amount 
of  the  principal  of  said  bonds  shall  be  made  due  and  payable 
in  any  one  year,  but  if  not  issued  in  serial  form,  the  total 
amount  of  the  principal  of  the  bonds  issued  may  be  made 
due  and  payable  at  their  maturity,  and  in  the  latter  case  the 
premiums  arising  from  the  sale  of  the  said  bonds  shall  be 
deposited  to  the  credit  of  a sinking  fund  for  the  redemption 
of  the  said  bonds  when  and  as  the  same  become  due  and  pay- 
able. The  proceeds  arising  from  the  sale  of  the  said  bonds 
shall  be  delivered  to  the  town  treasurer,  and  shall  be  applied, 
except  as  above  provided  in  respect  to  premiums  arising 
from  the  sale  of  said  bonds,  to  the  purchase  of  a site  for 
and  the  erection  and  equipment  of  a grammar  school  build- 
ing, and  for  the  purchase  of  sites  for  and  the  erection  and 


Town  author- 
ized to  issue 
$75,000  of 
bonds. 


How  issued. 


Proceeds  how 
applied. 


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ACTS  OB  THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY 


How  signed. 


To  establish 
sinking  fund. 


Bonds  not  to  be 
issued  unless 
approved,  how. 


equipment  of  such  other  school  buildings  as  may  be  needed 
in  said  town ; but  no'  purchaser  of  said  bonds  shall  be  in 
any  way  bound  to  see  to  the  proper  application  of  the  pro- 
ceeds thereof. 

Se;c.  3.  The  bonds  hereby  authorized  shall  be  signed  by 
the  town  treasurer  and  countersigned  by  the  town  clerk  of 
said  town. 

Sec.  4.  If  the  said  bonds  are  issued  in  serial  form,  the 
said  town  shall  annually  appropriate  until  said  bonds  are  paid 
in  full  a sum  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  upon  the  bonds  is- 
sued under  authority  of  this  act,  and  a sum  sufficient  to  pay 
the  principal  of  the  bonds  maturing  each  year;  but  if  the  said 
bonds  are  otherwise  issued,  the  said  town  shall  appropriate 
annually  until  said  bonds  are  paid  in  full  a sum  sufficient  to 
pay  the  interest  upon  the  bonds  issued  under  authority  of 
this  act,  and  a sum  to  be  placed  as  a sinking  fund  sufficient 
for  the  redemption  of  the  bonds  issued  under  authority  of 
this  act,  when  and  as  the  same  become  due  and  payable,  and 
all  premiums  arising  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds  shall,  in 
said  case,  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  said  sinking  fund,  and 
all  obligations  of  said  town  which  may  be  created  under  the 
authority  of  this  act  shall  be  excepted  from  the  operation  of 
section  21,  Chapter  46  of  the  General  Laws. 

Sec.  5.  No  bonds  shall  be  issued  under  the  authority  of 
this  act  until  and  unless  the  electors  of  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  qualified  to  vote  on  any  proposition  to  impose  a 
tax  or  for  the  expenditure  of  money,  when  legally  assembled 
in  town  meetings,  shall  vote  to  accept  this  act. 

SEC.  6.  This  act  shall  take  effect  when  accepted  in  accord- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  section  5 thereof. 


CHAPTER  748. 


Approved  May  2,  1911. 

AN  ACT  AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVI- 
DENCE TO  ISSUE  BONDS. 


reeating  to  the  town. 


99 


It  is  enacted  by'' the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  au- 
thorized and  empowered  to  issue  bonds  under  its  corporate 
name  and  seal,  in  addition  to  the  bonds  heretofore  author- 
ized to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dol- 
lars. Said  bonds  shall  be  of  a denomination  not  less  than 
one  hundred  nor  more  than  five  thousand  dollars  each,  shall 
bear  interest  at  a rate  not  exceeding  four  and  one-half  per 
centum  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually,  and  the  principal 
and  interest  thereof  shall  be  payable  in  gold  coin  of  the 
United  States  of  America  of  the  present  standard  of  weight 
and  fineness.  Said  bonds  shall  become  due  and  payable  in 
not  to  exceed  fifty  years  from  the  date  of  their  issue,  and 
shall  be  obligatory  upon  the  said  town  in  the  same  manner 
and  to  the  same  ebetent  as  other  debts  lawfully  contracted  by 
said  town. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  bonds  shall  be  issued  and  sold  by  the 
town  council  of  said  town  at  such  times,  in  such  amounts, 
in  such  manner,  and  maturing  at  such  dates,  as  the  said  town 
council  may  authorize  and  direct,  but  not  to  exceed  in  the 
date  of  their  maturity  fifty  years  from  the  date  of  their 
issue,  nor  to  exceed  in  amount  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  dollars  in  addition  to  the  bonds  heretofore  au- 
thorized. The  proceeds  arising  from  the  sale  thereof  shall 
be  delivered  to  the  town  treasurer,  and  shall  be  applied,  with 
the  exception  of  the  premiums  derived  from  the  sale  of  said 
bonds,  to  the  payment  of  the  present  and  future  indebtedness 
of  said  town,  but  no  purchaser  of  said  bonds  shall  be  in  any 
way  bound  to  see  to  the  proper  application  of  the  proceeds 
thereof. 

Sec.  3.  The  bonds  hereby  authorized  shall  be  signed  by 
the  town  treasurer  and  countersigned  by  the  town  clerk  of 
said  town. 

Sec.  4.  Said  town  shall  annually  appropriate,  until  said 
bonds  are  paid  in  full,  a sum  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest 
upon  the  bonds  issued  under  the  authority  of  this  act,  a sum 
to  be  placed  as  a sinking  fund  sufficient  for  the  redemption 


Town  of  East 
Providence  au- 
thorized to  issue 
$150,000  of 
bonds. 


How  issued. 


Proceeds  how 
applied. 


How  signed. 


To  establish 
sinking  fund. 


ioo 


ACTS  OB  THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY 


Certain  plats  or 
maps  may  be 
filed  with  the 
town  clerk, 
when. 


Town  not  to  be 
liable  for  re- 
pairs of  or  dam- 
ages occurring 
on  certain  ways 
or  streets. 


of  the  bonds  issued  under  authority  of  this  act,  when  and  as 
the  same  become  due  and  payable,  and  all  premiums  arising 
from  the  sale  of  said  bonds  shall  be  placed  to  the  credit  of 
said  sinking  fund. 

Sec.  5.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith 
are  hereby  repealed,  and  this  act  shall  take  effect  im- 
mediately. 


CHAPTER  749. 

Approved  May  3,  1911. 

AN  ACT  RELATING  TO  PLATS  OR  MAPS  OF  PRIVATE 
LANDS  IN  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

It  is  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Every  person  who  shall  hereafter  desire  to 
have  recorded  or  placed  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  town  clerk 
of  the  town  of  East  Providence  any  plat  or  map  of  private 
lands  having  any  private  way  or  street  shown  thereon,  shall 
first  cause  all  such  ways  or  streets  to  be  approved  by  the 
town  council  of  said  town ; and  said  town  clerk  shall  not  re- 
cord nor  receive  on  file  in  his  office  any  such  map  or  plat  until 
all  such  ways  or  streets  shall  have  been  so  approved. 

Sec.  2.  No  action  of  said  town  council,  authorized  by  this 
act,  shall  make  said  town  liable  for  repairs  of,  nor  for  any 
damages  of  any  kind  that  may  occur  upon  or  within  any  or 
either  of  such  ways  or  streets  until  the  same  have  been  duly 
accepted  and  declared  to  be  public  highways. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


Ordinances 


OF  THE 


Town  of  East  Providence. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

COMPRISING  THE 

ORDINANCES 

OF  THE 

Town  of  East  Providence. 


It  is  Ordained  by  the  Town  Council  of  the  Town  of  Bast 
Providence  as  follows: 


CHAPTER  1. 


SIDEWALKS. 


Section. 

1.  No  animal  or  vehicle  to  re- 

main on  sidewalk,  or  wood 
cut  or  coal  broken  there. 

2.  No  goods,  coal,  etc.,  to  be 

placed  on  the  sidewalk. 

3.  Awnings  to  be  placed  eight 

feet  above  sidewalk. 

4.  No  animal  or  vehicle  to 

stand  upon  crosswalk. 

5.  Snow  to  be  removed  frpm 

sidewalks;  fine. 

(5.  Same  subject. 

7.  Ice  to  be  removed  from  side- 
walks or  suitable  cover- 
ing; fine. 


Section. 

8.  No  merchandise  to  be  hoist- 

ed or  lowered  over  a 
street  if  adjudged  dan- 
gerous by  the  town  coun- 
cil. 

9.  Goods,  how  suspended  in 

front  of  shops. 

10.  No  aperture  to  be  made  in 

or  under  streets  except  by 
permission  of  surveyor  of 
highways;  mode  of  use. 

11.  Obstruction  of  sidewalks 

prohibited. 

12.  Obstruction  of  door-steps 

prohibited. 

13.  Fines. 


Section  1.  No  person  shall  ride,  drive  or  lead  any  animal 
or  move  or  trundle  any  vehicle  upon  any  sidewalk  in  the 
town,  except  light  carriages  for  the  conveyance  of  children, 
unless  for  the  purpose  of  necessarily  crossing  the  same,  or 
allow  any  animal  belonging  to  him  or  under  his  care  to  stand 
on  such  sidewalk,  or  shall  saw,  split  or  cut  any  firewood  or 
lumber,  or  break  up  any  coal  on  any  such  sidewalk. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  shall  deposit,  place  or  put,  or  suffer 
to  be  deposited,  placed  or  put,  by  any  person  or  persons  in 


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his  or  her  employment,  any  goods,  wares,  firewood,  coal, 
chattels  or  merchandise,  on  any  such  sidewalk,  except  while 
actually  removing  the  same  into  or  out  of  some  building  or 
enclosure. 

Sec.  3.  No  awning  shall  be  placed  or  continued  over  any 
sidewalk  unless  the  same  shall  be  constructed  of  cloth  or  can- 
vas and  supported  by  iron  rods,  and  every  part  of  such 
awning  and  of  the  supports  thereof  shall  be  at  least  eight 
feet  above  the  sidewalk. 

Sec.  4.  No  person  shall  suffer  or  permit  any  horse  or 
other  animal,  sled,  or  other  vehicle  of  any  description,  be- 
longing to  him  or  under  his  care,  to  stand  or  stop  upon  any 
crosswalk  in  the  town,  for  any  other  purpose  except  the 
taking  up  or  setting  down  of  passengers,  nor  for  any  longer 
time  than  shall  be  necessary  for  such  purpose. 

Sec.  5.  The  owner  or  owners,  occupant  or  occupants,  or 
any  person  having  the  care  of  any  building  or  lot  of  land 
bordering  on  any  street,  square  or  public  place  within  the 
town  where  there  is  a sidewalk  supported  by  a curb-stone, 
shall  within  the  first  four  hours  of  daylight,  after  the  ceasing 
to  fall  of  any  snow,  cause  the  same  to  be  removed  therefrom, 
and  in  default  thereof  shall  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  two 
dollars,  nor  more  than  ten  dollars ; and  for  each  and  every 
hour  after  the  expiration  of  the  said  four  hours  that  the 
snow  shall  remain  on  such  sidewalk,  such  owner  or  owners, 
occupant  or  occupants  or  other  person,  shall  pay  a fine  of 
not  less  than  one  dollar,  nor  more  than  ten  dollars. 

Sec.  6.  The  provisions  of  the  preceding  section  shall  also 
apply  to  the  the  falling  of  snow  from  any  building. 

Sec.  7.  Whenever  the  sidewalk  or  any  part  thereof  ad- 
joining any  building  or  lot  of  land  on  any  street,  shall  be  en- 
cumbered with  ice,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  owner  or 
owners,  occupant  or  occupants,  or  any  person  having  the 
care  of  such  building  or  lot,  to  cause  such  sidewalks  to  be 
made  safe  and  convenient  by  removing  the  ice  therefrom, 
or  by  covering  the  same  with  sand  or  some  other  suitable 
substance ; and  in  case  such  owner  or  owners  or  other  person 


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shall  neglect  so  to  do  for  the  space  of  two  hours  during  the 
daytime,  he  shall  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  two  dollars  nor 
more  than  ten  dollars,  and  a like  sum  for  every  day  there- 
after that  the  same  shall  continue  to  encumber. 

Sec.  8.  No  merchandise  shall  be  hoisted  or  lowered  into 
or  out  of  any  building  over  any  street,  where  the  town 
council  shall  have  adjudged  such  hoisting  or  lowering  dan- 
gerous to  travelers  in  such  street. 

Sec.  9.  No  person  shall  place  or  cause  to  be  placed,  or 
shall  suspend  or  cause  to  be  suspended,  from  any  house, 
shop,  store,  lot  or  place,  over  any  street,  any  goods,  wares  or 
merchandise  whatsoever,  or  any  flag,  sign  or  other  thing,  so 
that  the  same  shall  extend  or  project  from  the  wall  or  front 
of  said  house,  store,  shop,  lot  or  place,  more  than  one  foot 
towards  or  into  the  street. 

Sec.  10.  No  person  shall  make  or  cause  to  be  made  any 
aperture  in  or  under  any  street,  for  the  purpose  of  construct- 
ing coal-holes  or  receptadles  for  any  other  article,  or  for  light 
and  air,  or  for  an  entrance,  or  for  any  other  purpose,  without 
the  permission  of  the  surveyor  of  highways  first  obtained 
therefor ; and  no  person  shall  leave  such  aperture  open  or 
unfastened  unless  while  actually  in  use,  with  a person  by  the 
same. 

Sec.  1 1.  Three  or  more  persons  shall  not  stand  in  a group 
or  near  each  other,  on  any  foot  or  sidewalk,  so  as  to  obstruct 
a free  passage  for  foot  passengers ; and  any  person  or  per- 
sons obstructing  any  foot  or  sidewatlk  shall  move  on  imme- 
diately when  requested  so  to  do  by  the  sergeant  of  police  or 
any  police  constable. 

Sec.  12.  No  person  shall  be  or  remain  upon  any  door-step 
of  or  other  projection  from  any  building,  so  as  to  annoy  or 
disturb  any  person,  nor  shall  obstruct  any  passage  to  the  same 
or  the  appurtenances  thereof ; and  every  person  so  being  or 
remaining,  when  ordered  by  the  sergeant  of  police  or  any 
police  constable,  or  the  owner  or  occupant  of  said  building,  to 
remove,  shall  immediately  peaceably  depart  and  stay  away 
therefrom. 


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Sec.  13.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  chapter,  except  the  provisions  of  sections  five,  six,  and 
seven,  shall  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  two  nor  more  than  ten 
dollars. 


CHAPTER  2. 

HIGHWAYS. 

Section. 

7.  No  material  to  be  taken 
without  consent  of  Sur- 
veyor of  Highways. 

8.  Obstructing  gutters. 

9.  Depositing  waste  paper  pro- 
hibited. 

10.  Permitting  deposit  of  waste 
paper,  etc.,  prohibited. 

11.  How  waste  paper,  etc.,  shall 
be  carried. 

12.  Penalty. 


Section  1.  No  person  shall  suffer  or  permit  any  cart, 
coach,  dray,  sleigh,  sled  or  other  carriage  or  vehicle  of  any 
description,  belonging  to  him  or  her,  or  in  his  or  her  posses- 
sion, or  under  his  or  her  care,  to  remain  unharnessed  in  any 
of  the  streets  or  highways  more  than  one  hour  at  any  one 
time. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  shall  deposit,  place  or  put,  nor  suffer  to 
be  deposited,  placed  or  put,  by  any  person  or  persons  in  his  or 
her  employ,  any  goods,  wares,  firewood,  coal,  chattels  or  mer- 
chandise, in  any  of  said  streets  or  highways,  except  while 
landing  or  shipping  the  same,  or  actually  removing  the  same 
into  or  out  of  some  building  or  enclosure,  or  loading  the 
samp  into  or  unloading  the  same  out  of  some  vehicle. 

SEC.  3.  No  person  shall  play  at  ball  or  threw  any  stones  or 
other  missiles,  or  slide  on  any  sled  or  machine,  or  in  any 
vehicle  whatever,  for  amusement,  in  any  of  the  streets  or 
highways. 

Sec.  4.  No  person  shall  throw  or  deposit,  or  cause  to  be 
thrown  or  deposited  in  any  street,  highway  or  public  place, 


Section. 

1.  Vehicles  not  to  remain  in 

streets  unharnessed. 

2.  Goods  not  to  be  deposited  in 

streets. 

3.  Playing  ball  and  sliding  pro- 

hibited. 

4.  No  coal-dust,  ashes,  etc.,  to 

be  thrown  into  streets. 

5.  Throwing  noxious  liquids 

into  streets  prohibited. 

6.  Water  not  to  be  permitted 

to  run  into  streets  from 
adjoining  land. 


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any  coal,  dust,  soot,  ashes,  cinders,  shavings,  hair,  shreds, 
paper,  manure,  oyster,  clam  or  lobster  shells,  or  any  animal 
or  vegetable  matter  or  substance  whatever. 

Sec.  5.  No  person  shall  throw  or  deposit,  or  cause  to  be 
thrown  or  deposited,  or  suffer  to  flow  into  or  upon  any  street, 
highway,  gangway  or  public  place,  any  water  or  other  liquid 
which  causes  any  noxious  or  unhealthy  effluvia,  or  any  filthy 
or  dirty  water. 

Sec.  6.  No  water  upon  any  land  adjoining  to  a public 
street  or  highway  which  is  paved  or  which  is  graded,  and  the 
gutters  thereof  paved,  shall  be  permitted  to  run  from  any 
such  land  upon  such  street  or  highway  excepting  spring 
water,  the  natural  run  of  which  may  be  upon  such  street  or 
highway,  and  rain  water. 

Sec.  7.  No  person  shall  take  and  carry  away  from  any 
street,  highway  or  public  place,  any  earth,  sand,  gravel,  stone, 
sod  or  other  material,  without  permission  from  the  surveyor 
of  highways. 

Sec.  8.  No  person  shall,  without  the  written  permission 
of  the  surveyor  of  highways,  in  any  manner  fill  or  obstruct 
any  gutter,  or  other  channel  on  a highway  provided  for  the 
purpose  of  carrying  off  surface  water. 

Sec.  9.  No  person  shall  throw  or  deposit  in  and  upon  any 
premises  contiguous  or  adjacent  to  any  street,  highway  or 
public  place  any  waste  paper  in  such  manner  that  such  waste 
paper  shall  be  blown  on  to  any  street,  highway  or  public  place. 

Sec.  10.  No  person  shall  knowingly  permit  to  be  thrown, 
dumped  or  deposited  upon  his  premises,  or  upon  premises  in 
his  care  or  under  his  control,  contiguous,  adjacent  or  near  to 
any  street,  highway  or  public  place,  by  another  person  any 
waste  paper  in  such  a manner  that  such  waste  paper  shall  be 
blown  on  to  any  street,  highway  or  public  place. 

Sec.  11.  No  person  shall  carry  or  convey  through  or  in 
any  street,  highway  or  public  place  any  waste  paper  not  so 
covered  or  protected  as  to  prevent  the  escape  of  said  paper 
into  any  street,  highway  or  public  place,  and  no  person  while 
loading  or  unloading  a team  or  other  vehicle  shall  scatter  or 


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permit  any  waste  paper  to  be  scattered  in  any  street,  highway 
or  public  place  or  in  any  other  place  where  such  waste  paper 
shall  be  blown  on  to  any  street,  highway  or  public  place. 

Sec.  12.  Every  person,  who  shall  violate  any  provision  of 
this  chapter,  shall  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  two  nor  more 
than  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  3. 

PLUMBING  AND  DRAINAGE. 


Section. 

1.  Appointment  of  Inspector  of 

Plumbing  and  Drainage, 
with  his  duties. 

2.  Persons  carrying  on  busi- 

ness of  plumbing  or  drain- 
laying must  have  license; 
fees  for  same. 

3.  Must  give  what  bond. 

4.  Plans  to  be  filed  with  in- 

spector; fees  for  permits; 
work  to  be  inspected. 

5.  Things  unlawful  to  be  done. 

6.  Town  council  may  prevent 

the  discharge  of  injurious 
substances  into  sewers. 

7 Materials  of  good  quality 
only  to  be  used. 

S.  Specifications  as  to  earthen- 
ware pipe. 

9 Specilcations  as  to  cast-iron 
pipe. 

10.  Weights  of  cast-iron  pipe. 

11.  Specifications  as  to  wrought 

iron  pipe. 

12.  Weights  of  galvanized  or 

wrought-iron  pipe. 

13.  Specifications  as  to  fittings 

for  soil  and  water  pipes. 

14.  Specifications  as  to  brass 

pipe,  with  weights. 

15.  Quality  of  lead  pipe  to  be 

used  and  weights. 

16.  Weight  of  lead  traps  and 

bends. 

17.  Specifications  as  to  ferrules 

and  nipples. 

18.  Cleanouts. 

19.  Quality  of  caulking  lead; 

old  solder  joints  prohibit- 
ed. 

20.  Best  quality  of  oakum  to  be 

used:  paper  or  rags  pro- 
hibited. 

21.  Quality  of  solder  for  wiping 

joints. 

22.  Specifications  as  to  traps. 

23.  When  cast-iron,  brass  or 

lead  traps  may  be  used. 

24.  When  cast-iron  traps  must 

be  porcelain-lined  or  gal- 
vanized and  when  plain. 


Section. 

25.  Lead  water-closet  waste 

pipes,  specifications  con- 
cerning. 

26.  Specifications  for  traps  other 

than  water-closet  traps. 

27.  Couplings  and  connections 

with  traps  wnere  made. 

28.  Dimensions  of  traps. 

29.  Weight  and  thickness  of 

traps  and  bends. 

30.  Quality  and  character  of 

fixtures. 

31.  Specifications  as  to  water- 

closet  bowls. 

32.  What  styles  of  water-closets 

prohibited. 

33.  Water-closets  and  urinals  to 

be  flushed  with  “Flusho- 
meters.” 

34.  Specifications  as  to  flushing 

cisterns;  each  water  closet 
to  have  separate  cistern. 

35.  Water-closets  not  to  be  in- 

stalled in  unventilated  or 
ill- ventilated  rooms;  room 
must  have  direct  commu- 
nication with  outer  air; 
specifications  as  to  water 
closets,  etc.,  in  basements 
and  cellars. 

36.  Water  closets  and  plumbing 

fixtures  not  to  be  installed 
in  out-house  without  spe- 
cial permission;  specifica- 
tions when  permission 
given. 

37.  Plumbing  fixtures  to  be  set 

free  from  wood  work. 

38.  Number  of  water  closets 

and  urinals,  etc.,  in* insti- 
tutions, boarding  houses, 
tenements  or  public  build- 
ings. 

39.  Impervious  and  non-corro- 

sive materials  for  enclos- 
ures and  platforms  of  uri- 
nals. 

40.  Overflow  where  to  discharge. 

41.  Each  building  to  be  separ- 

ately connected  with  sew- 
er; grouping  when  allow- 
ed. 


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Section. 

42.  Size  of  house-drain  and 

main  soil-pipe. 

43.  House  sewer  connecting 

with  public  sewer  from 
five  feet  outside  founda- 
tion walls  to  be  cast-iron 
or  salt-glazed  vitrified 
earthernware;  specifica- 
tions as  to  laying  and 
making  joints. 

44.  Sewer  work  to  be  done  un- 

der direction  of  inspector. 

45.  Grade  of  house  sewer. 

46.  Depth  pipes  must  be  laid 

with  specifications. 

47.  Specifications  as  to  opening 

trenches  in  public  ways; 
settlement  of  earth  within 
sixty  days  to  be  repaired 
at  expense  of  owner  of 
property  from  which  house 
sewer  was  laid. 

48.  Inspector  to  be  notified 

twenty-four  hours  before 
beginning  work  on  house 
sewers  and  connections. 

42.  Earthenware  pipe  for  house 
sewer  not  be  be  laid  with- 
in five  feet  of  building’s 
wall. 

50.  When  old  house  sewers  may 

be  used. 

51.  No  trap  or  other  obstruction 

allowed  through  the 
course  of  the  drain  and 
soil-pipe. 

52.  From  five  feet  outside  of 

foundation  walls  to  ends 
of  soil  pipes  above  the 
roof  all  piping  to  be  of 
iron  or  brass;  local  vents 
as  an  exception. 

53.  Fall  on  lines  of  pipes. 

54.  Specifications  as  to  stacks 

of  soil  pipes. 

55.  Dead  ends  to  be  avoided. 

56.  Roof  extensions  to  be  4-inch 

cast-iron  pipes;  caps, 
cowls  and  return  bends 
prohibited;  to  be  carried 
how  high. 

57.  Soil,  waste  or  vent  pipes 

not  to  be  used  as  rain- 
water conductor  and  vice 
versa;  trap-venting  sys- 
tems not  to  be  used  with- 
out special  permission, 
with  specifications  when 
permission  given. 

58.  Sizes  of  pipes  for  branches 

on  soil  and  waste-pipes; 
existing  lines  to  be  enter- 
ed must  have  suitable  Y 
inserted-  specifications  for 
work  to  be  done. 

59.  Shortest  course  to  be  fol- 

lowed by  pipes. 

60.  Waste  pipes  from  refriger- 

ators where  to  discharge. 

61.  Rain-water  conductors  with- 

in building  to  be  of  iron 
or  brass  and  not  connect- 
ed with  sewer,  privy  or 
manure  pit. 


Section. 

62.  Plumbing  and  drainage  sys- 

tem of  each  building  to  be 
separate,  and  work  ac- 
ceptable to  inspector. 

63.  Specifications  as  to  joints  in 

cast-iron  pipe. 

64.  Double  hubs  and  sleeves 

prohibited. 

65.  Specifications  as  to  joints  in 

wrought-iron  or  wrought- 
iron  with  brass  pipes. 

66.  Specifications  as  to  connec- 

tions of  wrought-iron  or 
^ brass  with  cast-iron. 

67.  Specifications  as  to  connec- 

tions between  lead  and 
brass  or  lead  and  lead 
- pipes. 

68.  Cleanouts  where  to  be 

placed. 

69.  Specifications  as  to  trapping 

fixtures. 

70.  Fixtures  to  be  supplied  with 

running  water;  when 
pressure  insufficient  stor- 
age tank  to  be  provided 
with  specifications  con- 
cerning same. 

<1.  Storage  tanks,  where 
Placed;  dust-proof  covers 
for  same. 

72.  Overflow  from  storage  tank 
not  to  connect  with  soil, 
-9  Trr^ste  or  vent  pipe. 
t6-  Wastes  from  carriage- wash- 
ing floors  and  garages  to 
pass  through  silt-basins. 

<4.  inspector  to  pass  upon  work 
and  materials;  no  work  to 
be  covered  until  in- 
spected; inspector  to 
have  free  access  to  all 
plumbing  from  8 a.  m.  to 
5 p.  m.  each  day  to  exam- 
__  lne  anc*  test  the  same. 

15.  Notice  in  writing  to  be  sent 
to  inspector  when  work  is 
ready  for  inspection;  pen- 
7C  . alt,Y  f°r  premature  notice. 
<6.  Applications  for  final  in- 
spection to  be  filed  with 
inspector  within  forty- 
eight  hours  after  comple- 
tion of  work. 

77.  Two  tests  to  be  made;  first 

an  air  test;  second,  a 
smoke  test. 

78.  Defects  must  be  remedied 

within  one  week  and  re- 
tested; inspector  may,  for 
cause,  refuse  to  receive 
further  plans  for  work 
from  a party  in  default 
until  defective  work  has 
been  made  acceptable. 

79.  Inspector  to  report  to  town 

council  violations  of  this 
chapter  by  any  plumber 
or  drain-layer;  town  coun- 
cil may,  if  charges  are 
well  founded,  revoke  li- 
cense, and  may  refer  such 
charges  to  chief  of  police 
for  prosecution. 


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Section. 

80.  Persons  in  default,  until  de- 
fault has  been  removed, 
shall  be  ineligible  to  re- 
ceive a renewal  of  license. 


Section. 

81.  Penalty  for  conviction  for 
violation  of  provisions  of 
this  chapter. 


Section  1.  The  town  council  shall,  from  and  after  the 
passage  of  this  ordinance  and  thereafter  annually  in  the 
month  of  January,  appoint  an  inspector  of  plumbing  and 
drainage,  who  shall  be  paid  for  his  services  such  compensa- 
tion as  the  town  council  may  from  time  to  time  determine. 
The  said  inspector  shall  enforce  obedience  to  the  rules  and 
regulations  hereinafter  contained,  relating  to  the  plumbing 
and  drainage  of  buildings  within  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence, and  failure  of  duty  in  this  respect  shall  subject  said 
inspector  to  all  the  penalties  of  this  ordinance.  The  said  in- 
spector shall  keep  accurate  and  detailed  written  records  of  all 
his  official  acts,  and  shall,  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  each 
month,  file  with  the  town  clerk  a written  report,  describing 
all  work  begun,  prosecuted  or  completed  under  his  jurisdic- 
tion within  the  preceding  calendar  month,  and  reciting  the 
total  number  of  sewer  connections,  the  approximate  popula- 
tion tributary  to  the  sewers,  violations  of  this  ordinance  and 
all  other  matters  pertaining  to  his  office.  The  said  inspector 
shall  perform  all  other  duties  of  like  kind  that  may  be  pre- 
scribed, from  time  to  time  hereafter,  by  the  town  council. 

Sec.  2.  No  person,  firm  or  corporation  shall  carry  on  the 
business  of  plumbing  or  drain-laying  in  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  save  the  making  of  service  connections  with  the 
water  supply  pipes,  unless  he,  they  or  it  shall  be  first  duly 
licensed  by  the  town  council.  Each  application  for  a li- 
cense to  carry  on  the  business  of  plumbing  and  drain-laying 
must  be  made  upon  a blank  form  obtained  from  the  inspector 
of  plumbing  and  drainage,  and  be  filed  with  said  inspector, 
who  shall,  without  unreasonable  delay,  investigate  the  tech- 
nical skill,  responsibility  and  integrity  of  the  applicant,  and 
shall  present  the  application  to  the  town  council,  with  such  re- 
commendations as  he  may  deem  just  and  wise.  The  town 
council  will  then  consider  the  application,  and  it  may  either 
grant  or  refuse  to  grant  the  desired  license,  in  its  discretion. 


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If  granted,  the  license  shall  not  become  operative  until  the 
applicant,  if  he,  they  or  it  shall  be  a resident  of  the  town  of 
East  Providence,  has  paid  to  the  town  clerk  a registration 
fee  of  five  dollars,  and  if  he,  they  or  it  shall  not  be  a resident 
of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  until  the  applicant  has  paid 
to  the  town  clerk  a registration  fee  of  twenty-live  dollars. 
All  licenses  issued  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall 
expire  by  limitation  at  noon  on  the  day  following  the  regular 
monthly  meeting  of  the  town  council  in  the  month  of 
January  next  following  the  date  of  issue;  but  if  the  licensee 
shall  be  in  default  because  of  any  violation  of  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance,  or  if  he  shall  have  loaned  his  license  to  an 
unlicensed  plumber  or  drain-layer,  his,  their  or  its  license 
s*hall  forthwith  cease  and  determine,  and  the  fee  for  the 
license  or  any  unexpired  portion  of  the  term  thereof  shall  be 
forfeited  to  the  town. 

Sec.  3.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation,  applying  for  a 
license  to  carry  on  the  business  of  plumbing  or  drain-laying 
shall,  when  directed  by  the  town  council  so  to  do,  furnish  a 
bond,  in  the  sum  of  three  thousand  dollars,  with  one  or  more 
sureties  acceptable  to  the  town  council,  conditioned  substan- 
tially that  the  applicant  shall  indemnify  and  save  harmless  the 
town  of  East  Providence  and  said  town  council  from  all 
suits  and  actions  of  every  name  and  description  brought 
against  said  town,  or  any  officer  of  said  town,  for  or  on 
account  of  any  injuries  or  damages  received  or  sustained  by 
any  person  in  consequence  of  or  resulting  from  any  work 
performed  by  said  applicant,  his,  their  or  its  servants  or 
agents,  or  of  or  from  any  improper  materials  used  in  said 
work,  or  of  or  from  any  negligence  in  guarding  said  work,  or 
of  or  from  any  act  or  omission  of  said  applicant,  his,  their 
or  its  servants  or  agents;  that  said  applicant  shall  faithfully 
perform  said  work  in  all  respects,  and  shall  also  replace  and 
restore  that  portion  of  any  street  in  which  said  applicant, 
his,  their  or  its  servants  or  agents,  shall  make  any  excavation, 
to  as  good  condition  as  that  in  which  the  same  was  before 
said  work  was  performed,  and  also  keep  and  maintain  such 


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street  in  like  good  condition  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  said 
town  council  for  the  period  of  one  year,  and  that  said  town 
council  may  within  said  one  year,  and  with  or  without  notice 
to  said  applicant,  repair  such  street  or  cause  the  same  to  be 
repaired,  and  that  the  cost  thereof  shall  be  paid  by  said  appli- 
cant ; and  that  said  applicant  shall  comply  in  all  respects  with 
i he  rules  and  regulations  established  by  said  town  council 
relative  to  said  work,  and  shall  also  pay  all  lines  imposed 
upon  him,  them  or  it  for  violation  of  any  such  rule  or  regu- 
lation. 

Sec.  4.  Before  any  work  of  plumbing  or  drainage  shall 
be  done  or  commenced  in  any  building  or  on  any  property, 
whether  the  same  is,  or  is  to  be,  connected  with  the  public  t 
sewer  or  not,  or  before  any  alterations  or  additions  are  to  be 
made  to  old  work  (save  the  removal  of  obstructions  or  the 
repairing  of  leaks),  plans,  descriptions  and  specifications  of 
the  proposed  work,  signed  by  a licensed  plumber  or  drain- 
layer,  shall  be  filed  in  duplicate  in  the  office  of  the  inspector 
of  plumbing  and  drainage,  accompanied  by  an  application 
for  approval  of  the  said  plans  and  the  issuance  of  a permit 
to  do  the  said  work,  written  upon  a blank  form  obtained 
from  the  said  inspector  and  signed  by  the  owner  of  the 
premises  or  his  properly  accredited  agent.  These  plans,  de- 
scriptions and  specifications  must  conform  to  all  the  pro- 
visions of  this  ordinance  and  to  all  rules  and  regulations 
which  are  or  may  hereafter  be  made  concerning  such  work ; 
and  no  work  of  plumbing  or  drainage  may  be  begun  until  the 
plans  have  been  examined  by  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and 
drainage  and  his  approval  has  been  indorsed  upon  them  in 
writing. 

For  each  permit  issued,  covering  the  installation  of  a new 
plumbing  or  drainage  system  in  a building,  a fee  of  one 
dollar  must  be  paid  to  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drain- 
age at  the  time  the  permit  is  issued ; and  for  each  permit  cov- 
ering alterations  only  in  a building  a fee  of  fifty  cents  must 
be  paid. 

All  work  done  under  such  plans  shall  be  subject  to  the  in- 


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spection,  control  and  approval  of  the  said  inspector,  and  no 
departure  from  or  alteration  in  the  plan  shall  be  made,  with- 
out first  obtaining  a special  permit  in  writing  from  the  said 
inspector,  who  must  file  with  the  original  plans  amendment- 
sheets  showing  all  changes  in  the  work. 

SEC.  5.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  cor- 
poration, v 

(a)  To  allow  or  permit  the  discharge  of  sewage  from  any 
house  or  building  in  the  town  of  East  Providence  into  any 
storm-water  drain  located  in  any  street  or  public  place  which 
also  contains  a foul  water  sewer,  except  in  the  cases  of  con- 
nections made  prior  to  the  passage  of  this  ordinance. 

(b)  To  open  any  street  or  public  place  in  order  to  make 
or  cause  to  be  made  any  connection  with  a house-connection 
branch  of  a public  sewer,  except  under  a special  written  per- 
mit signed  by  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage,  allow- 
ing such  specific  connection,  and  under  the  supervision  of  the 
said  inspector. 

(c)  To  break  or  to  cut  or  to  remove  any  pipe  of  the 
public  service,  or  to  make  or  to  cause  to  be  made  any  connec- 
tion with  said  sewers  except  through  the  connection  branches 
provided  for  such  purposes,  the  location  of  said  connection 
branches  to  be  designated  by  the  said  inspector. 

(d)  To  discharge  or  to  cause  to  be  discharged  into  any 
public  foul-water  sewer,  directly  or  indirectly,  any  cellar- 
drainage,  ground-water,  surface-water  or  rain-water  from 
yards  or  areas  or  courts  or  roofs. 

(e)  To  discharge  or  cause  to  be  discharged  into  any  pub- 
lic sewer,  directly  or  indirectly,  any  overflow  or  drainage 
from  manure  pits,  cesspools,  or  other  receptacles  storing  or 
constructed  to  store  organic  wastes. 

(f)  To  connect  or  cause  to  be  connected  with  any  public 
sewer,  directly  or  indirectly,  any  steam-exhausts,  boiler  blow- 
offs,  sediment-drips  or  any  pipes  carrying  or  constructed  to 
carry  considerable  volumes  of  hot  water  or  acids,  dyes, 
germicides,  grease,  brewery-mash,  or  any  other  substance 


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detrimental  to  the  sewers  or  to  operation  of  the  sewerage 
system. 

(g)  To  throw  or  to  deposit,  or  to  cause  or  allow  to  be 
thrown  or  deposited,  in  any  fixture,  vessel,  receptacle,  inlet 
or  opening  connected  directly  or  indirectly  with  any  public 
sewer,  any  garbage,  vegetable  parings,  ashes,  cinders,  rags, 
or  any  othe^  matter  or  anything  whatsoever,  except  faeces, 
urine,  necessary  toilet  paper,  and  liquid  house-slops;  or  to 
allow  any  house-sewer  connected  with  the  public  sewer  to  be 
likewise  connected  with  any  privy  vault  or  cesspool  or  under- 
ground drain,  or  with  any  channel  conveying  water  or  filth, 
except  such  soil-pipes  and  other  plumbing  work  as  shall  have 
been  duly  inspected  and  approved  by  the  inspector  of  plumb- 
ing and  drainage. 

Certain  trade-wastes,  not  injurious  to  the  sewerage  or 
sewage  disposal  system,  may  be  admitted  to  the  sewers,  but 
only  upon  recommendation  of  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and 
drainage,  and  the  issuance  of  a special  permit  by  the  town 
council,  at  its  discretion  and  revocable  at  its  pleasure  with- 
out recourse. 

SEC.  C).  The  town  council  may,  at  any  time  in  its  discre- 
tion, stop  and  prevent  the  discharge  into  the  public  sewers  of 
any  substances  liable  to  injure  the  sewers,  or  to  interfere 
with  their  normal  operation,  or  to  obstruct  the  flow,  or  to 
hinder  any  processes  of  sewage  purification  which  hereafter 
may  be  put  in  operation ; and  it  may,  at  any  time,  in  its  dis- 
cretion, without  notice  and  without  recourse,  sever  the  con- 
nection and  cause  the  removal  of  any  tributary  sewer  or 
drain  through  which  such  detrimental  substances  are  dis- 
charged. 

Sec.  7.  All  materials  must  be  of  good  quality,  free  from 
defects  and  acceptable  to  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and 
drainage. 

SEC.  8.  All  earthenware  pipe  and  specials  must  be  of  the 
best  quality,  sound,  cylindrical,  hard,  salt-glazed,  vitrified 
throughout,  “hub  and  spigot”  pattern.  All  hubs  must  be  of 


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sufficient  diameter  to  receive  to  their  full  depth  the  spigot 
end  of  the  next  following  pipe  or  special  without  any  chip- 
ping whatever  of  either,  and  also  leave  a sufficient  space  for 
the  cement  joint. 

SEC.  9.  All  cast-iron  pipes  and  fittings  must  be  sound,  un- 
coated, cylindrical  and  smooth  internally,  free  from  cracks, 
sand  holes  or  other  defects,  of  uniform  thickness  and  of  the 
grade  known  in  commerce  as  “Extra  Heavy.” 

SEC.  10.  Including  the  hubs,  cast-iron  pipes  and  fittings 
shall  not  weigh  less  than  the  following  per  lineal  foot : 

Lbs. 

2 inches  5.50 

3 inches  9.50 

4 inches  13.00 

SEC.  11.  All  wrought-iron  pipes  must  be  equal  in  quality 
and  thickness  to  that  known  as  “Standard,”  and  they  must 
be  smoothly  galvanized  inside  and  outside. 

Sec.  12.  Galvanized  or  wrought-iron  pipe  must  conform 
to  the  following  weights  per  lineal  foot : 


Lbs. 

1J4  inches 

1.90 

ll/2  inches 

2.68 

2 inches 

3.61 

2l/2  inches 

5.74 

3 inches 

7.54 

3^2  inches 

9.00 

4 inches 

10.00 

SEC.  13.  Fittings  for  wrought-iron  soil  and  waste  pipes 
must  be  galvanized,  heavy  cast-iron,  recessed  and  tapped. 
The  water  way  must  be  smooth  and  the  threads  pitched,  so 
as  to  give  a uniform  grade  to  branches  of  not  less  than  one- 
quarter  of  an  inch  per  foot.  The  use  of  fittings  electro- 
plated with  zinc  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  14.  All  brass  pipe,  whether  used  for  soil,  waste,  vent 


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or  solder  nipples,  must  be  thoroughly  annealed,  seamless, 
drawn  and  of  standard  iron  pipe  gauge  and  thickness. 

The  minimum  weight  of  brass  pipe,  per  lineal  foot,  must  be 
as  follows : 


Lbs. 

1)4  inches 

1.75 

1)4  inches 

2.84 

2 inches 

3.82 

2)4  inches 

6.08 

3 inches 

7.02 

4 inches 

9.54 

Sec.  15.  All  lead  used 

for  soil,  waste  and  vent  pipe 

branches  must  be  of  the  best  quality  “Drawn,”  commercially 

known  as  “D,”  and  of  the 

following  minimum  weights  per 

lineal  foot : 

Lbs. 

1)4  inches 

2.50 

1)4  inches 

3.00 

2 inches 

4.00 

3 inches 

6.00 

4 inches 

8.00 

Sec.  16.  All  lead  traps  and  bends  must  be  of  weight  and 
quality  corresponding  to  lead  pipe. 

Sec.  17.  Ferrules  must  be  best  quality,  heavy  cast  brass, 
bell-shaped  and  not  less  than  four  inches  long.  Solder 
nipples  must  be  of  the  best  quality  heavy  cast  brass,  or  brass 
tubing  above  described  (Sec.  14.)  with  standard  iron  pipe 
threads. 

Sec.  18.  Cleanouts  may  be  of  heavy  cast  brass  or  iron 
with  threads  of  iron  pipe  gauge,  but  the  caps  must  be  of 
heavy  cast  brass  with  large  “square”  or  “head”  for  wrench 
attachment.  All  cleanouts  must  equal  in  diameter  the  pipe 
line  in  which  they  are  placed. 

Sec.  19.  All  lead  used  in  caulking  must  be  pure  soft  “pig.” 
The  use  of  caulking  lead  containing  old  solder  joints  is  pro- 
hibited. 


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Sec.  20.  All  oakum  used  in  caulking  cast-iron  pipe  must 
be  of  the  best  quality  “hand  picked.”  The  use  of  paper  or 
rags  in  making  lead-caulked  joints  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  21.  All  solder  for  wiping  joints  must  be  of  the  best 
quality  pure  block  tin  and  lead. 

Sec.  22.  Traps  must  have  an  effective  water-seal  of 
not  less  than  three  inches.  They  must  have  a smooth  water- 
way and  must  contain  no  mechanical  appliances  or  moving 
parts.  They  must  be  of  effective  non-siphoning  type,  and 
their  ability  to  resist  siphonic  action  must  be  demonstrated, 
if  required,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  inspector  of  plumbing 
and  drainage. 

Sec.  23.  When  not  integral  with  the  fixtures,  traps  may 
be  of  cast-iron,  brass  or  lead. 

Sec.  24.  When  used  in  connection  with  fixtures,  cast-iron 
traps  must  be  porcelain-liped  or  galvanized ; 011  yard  and 
other  drains  they  may  be  plain. 

Sec.  25.  Lead  water-closet  waste  pipes,  serving  earthen 
or  iron  water-closets  with  self-contained  traps,  must  have  a 
heavy  cast-brass  face-dressed  flange  soldered  to  the  lead  and 
bolted  to  the  outlet  of  the  closet. 

Sec.  26.  All  traps,  other  than  water-closet  traps,  must  be 
provided  with  heavy  brass  screw  cleanouts  located  below 
the  water-seal.  Slip  or  clamped  covers  are  prohibited. 

Sec.  27.  All  coupling  or  union  connections  with  traps 
must  be  made  on  the  inlet  side  thereof. 

Sec.  28.  The  following  diameters  for  traps  will  be  re- 
quired : 

For  water-closets,  4-inch 

For  slop-sinks,  3-inch 

For  baths,  urinals,  laundry-tubs 


Sec.  29.  Traps  and  bends  must  equal  in  weight  and  thick- 
ness of  walls  the  pipes  of  corresponding  sizes,  as  scheduled 
above. 

Sec.  30.  All  fixtures  must  be  of  good  quality,  non- 


aijd  sinks, 
For  lavatories 


2-inch 

1*4  or  14  inch 


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absorbent,  and  of  such  form  as  to  admit  of  perfect  cleansing. 
In  all  fixtures  which  are  earthenware  and  have  their  traps 
integral  the  trap  vent  connection  must  be  omitted  therefrom. 

Sec.  31.  All  water-closets  bowls  and  urinals  must  be  of 
earthenware  with  flushing  rims.  The  use  of  long  hoppers  is 
prohibited  except  where  exposed  to  frost.  “Washout”  closets 
shall  not  be  used  in  any  new  system  or  new  additions. 

Sec.  32.  Water-closets  having  pans,  plungers,  valves  or 
other  mechanical  seals  against  sewer  gas  are  prohibited. 

Sec.  33.  All  water-closets  and  urinals  must  be  flushed 
from  cisterns  or  automatic  flush  valves  known  as  “Flusho- 
meters,”  etc.,  and  not  from  the  service  pipes  direct.  The 
capacity  of  any  cistern  must  be  such  as  will  enable  its  con- 
tents to  flush  effectually  the  fixture  without  a refill. 

Sec.  34.  Flushing  cisterns  for  water-closets,  urinals  and 
slop-sinks  may  be  made  of  wood,  lined  with  copper  or  sheet- 
lead,  or  they  may  be  of  cast-iron  poreclain-lined.  Their 
flush  pipes  may  be  of  galvanized  wrought-iron,  brass  or  lead, 
but  must  be  of  ample  diameter. 

When  there  are  several  water-closets  in  one  apartment, 
each  must  be  provided  with  a separate  cistern. 

SEC.  35.  No  water-closet  may  be  installed  in  any  unventi- 
lated or  ill-ventilated  room  or  compartment  or  in  any  sleep- 
ing room.  In  every  case  the  room  or  compartment  in  which 
a water-closet  is  placed  shall  have  direct  communication 
with  the  outer  air  by  a window  or  air-duct  not  less  than  two 
square  feet  in  area  or  cross-section ; and  in  every  case  the 
location  of  the  closet  and  the  means  of  ventilation  shall  be 
satisfactory  to  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage. 

No  water-closet,  urinal,  sink,  laundry-tub,  or  any  other 
plumbing  fixture  may  be  placed  in  any  basement  or  cellar, 
which  does  not  conform  to  all  the  following  conditions: 

(a)  The  floor  must  be  well  concreted  and  dry  at  all  sea- 
sons of  the  year ; 

(b)  The  ceiling  (bottom  of  the  floor  joists)  must  be  at 
least  thirty  inches  above  the  ground  level ; 

(c)  There  must  be  at  least  one  window,  of  not  less  than 


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two  square  feet  of  opening,  for  each  two  hundred  square 
feet  of  cellar  area,  and  each  window  must  have  running  or 
hinged  sash,  so  that  it  may  be  freely  used  for  ventilation ; 

(d)  The  closet  must  be  located  within  eight  feet  of  such 
a window ; 

(e)  The  cellar  or  basement  must  not  be  used  or  intended 
tor  use  as  place  for  the  storage  of  provisions; 

(f)  All  other  conditions  must  be  satisfactory  to  the  in- 
spector of  plumbing  and  drainage  from  the  sanitary  stand- 
point. 

Sec.  36.  No  water-closet  or  other  plumbing  fixture  shall 
be  installed  in  an  outhouse  or  detached  building  without  spe- 
cial permission,  in  writing,  from  the  inspector  of  plumbing 
and  drainage.  When  such  installation  is  permitted,  the  water- 
supply  and  waste-pipes  and  the  traps  must  be  amply  protect- 
ed against  frost  by  enclosing  them  in  vaults  or  by  such  other 
construction  as  may  be  approved  by  the  inspector  of  plumb- 
ing and  drainage. 

Sec.  37.  All  plumbing  fixtures  must  be  set  free  from  en- 
closing woodwork.  Water-closets  not  provided  with  rim 
seats  must  have  iron  or  brass  legs  to  support  the  wood  frame. 

SEC.  38.  I11  any  institution,  boarding  house,  tenement  or 

public  building,  situated  upon  any  street  through  which  water 
is  conducted  in  pipes,  there  shall  be  at  least  one  water-closet 
for  every  fifteen  persons,  and  one  urinal  for  every  ten  male 
persons. 

In  every  tenement  house  situated  upon  any  street  through 
which  water  is  conducted  in  pipes,  there  shall  be  one  water- 
closet  and  one  sink,  with  running  water,  provided  for  the  ex- 
clusive use  of  each  family  in  the  building.  Latrines  or 
trough  water-closets  must  not  be  installed  without  special 
permission  in  writing  from  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and 
drainage. 

Sec.  39.  All  enclosures  and  platforms  for  urinals  must  be 
of  marble,  slate  or  other  impervious  and  non-corrosive 
materials. 

Sec.  40.  Where  a fixture  is  provided  with  an  overflow, 


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such  overflow  must  be  arranged  so  as  to  discharge  into  the 
inlet  side  of  the  trap. 

Sec.  41.  Each  building  fronting  on  a public  way  must 
be  connected  separately  and  independently  with  the  public 
sewer  in  said  public  way  through  the  house-connection 
branch  directly  in  front  of  the  building  or  nearest  in  the 
down-stream  direction.  Grouping  of  buildings  upon  one 
house-sewer  will  not  be  permitted,  save  by  special  act  of 
council  and  for  good  sanitary  reasons. 

Sec.  42.  No  house-drain  or  main  soil-pipe  may  be  of  any 
diameter  other  than  four  inches,  save  under  special  written 
permission  of  the  town  council  granted  after  recommenda- 
tion by  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage. 

SEC.  43.  Every  house-sewer  connecting  with  the  public 
sewer  from  a point  five  feet  outside  the  foundation  walls  of 
the  building  must  be  either  of  heavy  cast-iron,  or  of  salt- 
glazed  vitrified  earthenware,  with  deep  and  wide  bell-and- 
spigot  joints.  It  must  be  solidly  laid  on  a true  grade,  and  as 
nearly  as  possible  in  a straight  line.  All  changes  in  direction 
must  be  made  with  properly  curved  pipe  or  fittings. 

All  joints  must  be  properly  gasketed  to  prevent  intrusion 
of  lead  or  cement  into  the  pipes.  Vitrified  pipe  shall  be 
joined  with  one-to-one  Portland  cement  mortar,  solidly 
packed  with  the  fingers  into  the  bell  for  its  whole  circum- 
ference and  finished  with  a full  and  smooth  bevel.  Cast-iron 
pipes  shall  be  jointed  with  first  quality  lead,  the  entire  joint 
being  filled  in  one  pouring  and  thoroughly  caulked.  The 
ditch  must  in  all  cases  be  kept  dry  during  the  pipe-laying 
and  until  the  cement  has  acquired  a hard  set.  The  greatest 
care  must  be  taken  to  prevent  the  entrance  of  sand  or  dirt 
into  the  house-sewer  or  the  public  sewer. 

Sec.  44.  No  sewer  connection  branch  shall  be  opened,  no 
pipe  shall  be  laid  and  no  joints  made  except  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage. 

Sec.  45.  No  house-sewer  connecting  with  the  public 
sewer  shall  be  laid  with  a grade  of  less  than  one  inch  fall  in 
four  feet,  without  written  permission  from  the  inspector  of 


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plumbing  and  drainage,  specifying  the  minimum  grade  that 
will  be  permitted. 

Sec  46.  No  earthenware  pipe  shall  be  laid  at  a depth  less 
than  thirty  inches.  Pipes  laid  with  less  depth  must  be  of 
heavy  cast-iron,  held  by  concrete  frost  anchors  and  in  special 
bedding,  if  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage  shall  so 
direct. 

All  pipes  must  be  covered  to  a depth  of  at  least  one  foot 
with  fine  earth,  entirely  free  from  stones  and  rubbish,  and 
well  and  carefully  rammed. 

SEC.  47.  In  opening  trenches  in  any  street  or  public  way, 
the  paving  must  be  removed  with  care  and  stored  separately, 
and  the  sides  of  the  trench  shall  be  braced  or  sheeted  if  the 
inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage  shall  so  direct.  The 
earth  from  the  trench  must  not  obstruct  the  gutter  or  the  ap- 
proach to  any  fire  hydrant,  fire  engine  house  or  livery  stable,* 
and  public  travel  must  be  facilitated  as  much  as  possible. 
Gas  and  water  pipes  must  be  protected  from  injury,  and  the 
trench  must  be  securely  barricaded  and  amply  lighted  at 
night.  No  trench  in  any  street  or  public  way  shall  remain 
open  more  than  forty-eight  hours.  Backfill  must  be  thor- 
oughly compacted  and  the  paving  replaced  immediately; 
debris  must  be  cleaned  up  and  the  street  must  be  restored 
promptly  to  a condition  satisfactory  to  the  inspector  of 
plumbing  and  drainage. 

Any  settlement  of  earth  over  a house-sewer  in  any  street  or 
public  way,  occurring  within  sixty  days  of  the  closing  of  the 
trench,  shall  be  repaired,  within  five  days  after  written  notice 
from  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage,  to  his  satisfac- 
tion and  at  the  expense  of  the  owner  of  the  property  from 
which  said  house-sewer  has  been  laid. 

Sec.  48.  The  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage  must  be 
notified  at  least  twenty-four  hours  before  the  beginning  of 
any  work  upon  house-sewers  or  connections,  and  no  material 
may  be  used  and  no  work  done  without  his  inspection  and 
approval. 

Sec.  49.  Where  earthenware  pipe  is  used  for  a house- 


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sewer,  it  must  not  be  laid  within  five  feet  of  any  wall  of 
any  building.  The  use  of  earthenware  pipe  within  the  build- 
ing is  prohibited. 

Sec.  50.  Old  house-sewers  may  be  used  for  new  buildings 
provided  they  are  in  good  condition  and  conform  to  the  re- 
quirements of  these  regulations. 

SEC.  51.  No  trap  or  any  manner  of  obstruction  to  the  free 
flow  of  air  through  the  whole  course  of  the  drain  and  soil- 
pipe  will  be  allowed ; and  any  mechanic  who  shall  directly  or 
indirectly  place,  make,  cause,  or  allow  to  be  placed  or  made 
any  trap,  contraction  or  other  obstacle  anywhere  in  the 
course  of  such  drain  or  soil-pipe,  shall,  in  addition  to  the 
penalty  herein  prescribed,  forfeit  his  license,  and  shall  be  in- 
eligible to  re-license  for  one  year.  And  any  other  person  of- 
fending as  above  shall  be  subject  to  the  penalties  of  this 
^ordinance,  and  shall  in  addition  pay  the  costs  of  rectifying 
the  wrong  done. 

Sec.  52.  From  the  head  of  the  house-sewer,  five  feet 
outside  the  foundation  walls  to  the  ends  of  the  soil-pipes  pro- 
jecting above  the  roof  of  the  building,  all  piping  shall  be  of 
cast-iron,  galvanized  wrought-iron  or  brass.  No  sheet-metal 
pipe  or  brick  or  concrete  channel  shall  enter  into  the  con- 
struction of  any  part  of  the  interior  plumbing  system,  either 
as  a waste  pipe,  a flush  pipe  or  a vent,  except  for  a local  vent. 

Sec.  53.  All  pipes  on  lines  approximating  a horizontal 
position  must  have  a fall  of  at  least  one  inch  in  four  feet. 

Sec.  54.  Each  stack  of  soil-pipe  must  be  carried  in  a line 
as  straight  as  possible  from  the  cellar  to  its  termination  above 
the  roof.  Each  stack,  when  required  by  the  inspector  of 
plumbing  and  drainage,  must  be  supported  by  a brick  pier, 
eight  inches  square,  and  the  heavy  cast-iron  elbow,  which 
forms  the  base  of  the  stack,  shall  be  provided  with  a foot- 
plate and  shall  be  solidly  bedded  upon  and  built  into  this 
pier.  All  other  portions  of  all  soil  or  waste  or  vent  pipes 
must  be  securely  and  rigidly  supported  and  fastened  by 
wrought-iron  supports  or  hangers,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage. 


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Sec.  55.  Dead  ends  must  be  avoided.  Any  branch  line 
more  than  twelve  feet  long  must  be  treated  as  a separate 
stack  and  carried  through  the  roof. 

SEC.  56.  All  roof  extensions  must  be  carried  through  the 
roof  by  4-inch  cast-iron  pipes.  Stacks  of  smaller  diameter 
must  be  increased  to  four  inches  by  the  insertion  of  a proper 
“increaser”  in  the  attic  or  roof  space. 

The  use  of  caps,  cowls,  return-bends  or  any  other  form  of 
obstruction,  on  roof  extensions,  is  prohibited. 

All  extensions  should  be  carried  through  the  highest  roof 
of  the  building,  where  this  is  possible.  If  carried  through  a 
lower  level  roof,  they  must  be  extended,  if  possible,  to  a 
point  above  the  high  level  roof.  In  no  case  may  they  termin- 
ate at  a lower  level  within  fifteen  feet  of  a window. 

Sec.  57.  No  soil,  waste  or  vent  pipe  may  be  used  as  a 
1 ain-water  conductor ; nor  may  any  rain-water  conductor  be 
used  as  a soil,  waste  or  vent  pipe. 

No  trap-venting  system  shall  be  used  where  safety  can  be 
insured  by  the  use  of  unsiphonable  traps,  or  without  special 
written  permission  from  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and 
drainage.  Should  such  permission  be  granted,  all  vents  shall 
be  equivalent  in  material  and  workmanship  to  the  require- 
ments for  soil  and  waste-pipes ; they  must  be  as  short  and 
direct  as  they  can  be  made ; they  must  be  of  ample  size 
(never  less  than  two  inches  in  diameter),  and  they  must 
terminate  either  in  an  independent  open  end  above  the  roof 
or  by  entering  a soil-pipe  stack  above  its  highest  fixture. 

Sec.  58.  The  following  diameters  are  required  for 
branches  on  soil  and  waste-pipes : 

For  water-closets,  4 inches 

For  slop-sinks,  3-inches 

For  baths,  urinals,  washtubs 


If  any  existing  line  of  soil-pipe  is  to  be  entered  by  a new 
branch  line,  a length  of  pipe  must  be  removed  from  the  old 
line  and  a suitable  Y branch  and  closure  piece  inserted,  gas- 


and  sinks, 
For  lavatories, 


2 inches 

114  or  IJ/2  inches 


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keted,  leaded  and  caulked;  and  adjacent  joints  of  the  old 
line  shall  be  carefully  examined,  or  tested  if  the  inspector 
of  plumbing  and  drainage  so  direct,  and  re-caulked  or  re- 
made entirely  if  any  defect  exists;  any  pipe  cracked  or  in- 
jured in  the  operation  shall  be  taken  out  and  replaced  with 
new  pipe,  and  the  line  shall  be  left  in  perfectly  sound  and 
tight  condition.  The  use  of  saddle-branches,  saddle-plates, 
repair-bands  and  similar  devices  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  59.  All  soil,  waste  and  vent  pipes  should  follow  the 
shortest  possible  course,  with  the  least  number  of  bends,  and 
all  should  be  left  readily  accessible  for  inspection,  testing  or 
repairs. 

SEC.  60.  No  waste-pipe  from  any  refrigerator  or  other  re- 
ceptacle or  compartment  in  which  provisions  are  stored,  shall 
discharge  into  or  upon  the  soil  of  any  cellar,  nor  into  waste- 
pipe,  drain-pipe  or  soil-pipe.  They  may  discharge  into  the 
open  air,  through  an  outside  wall,  or  over  a water-supplied 
sink. 

Sec.  61.  Rain-water  conductors,  when  placed  within  the 
building,  must  be  of  cast-iron,  galvanized  wrought-iron  or 
brass,  and  must  be  tested  in  the  same  manner  as  soil,  waste 
or  vent  pipes. 

Rain-water  conductors  must  not  be  connected  with  the 
sewerage  system,  neither  must  they  discharge  into  a privy 
vault,  or  manure  pit. 

Sec.  62.  The  plumbing  and  drainage  system  of  each  build- 
ing must  be  entirely  separate  from  and  independent  of  the 
system  of  any  other  building.  All  work  must  be  executed  in 
accordance  with  the  best  practice  of  the  art  and  must  be  ac- 
ceptable to  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage. 

Sec.  63.  All  joints  in  cast-iron  pipe  must  be  made  with 
oakum  and  molten  lead.  All  joints  must  be  gas,  and  water- 
tight. Twelve  ounces  of  soft  pig  lead  must  be  used  at  each 
joint  for  each  one  inch  in  diameter  of  the  pipe. 

Sec.  64.  The  use  of  double  hubs  and  sleeves  in  cast-iron 
pipe  or  anywhere  within  the  building  is  prohibited. 

Sec.  65.  All  joints  in  wrought-iron  pipes  or  between 


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wrought-iron  and  brass  pipe  must  be  made  up  with  red  lead 
and  screwed  home ; all  the  burrs  formed  in  cutting  must  be 
carefully  reamed  out. 

Sfc.  66.  Where  wrought-iron  or  brass  is  connected  with 
cast-iron,  a one-inch  ring  must  be  screwed  to  the  former  so 
as  to  provide  a spigot. 

SFC.  67.  Connections  between  lead  and  brass  pipes  or  fer- 
rules or  between  lead  and  lead  pipes  must  be  made  by  solder- 
wiped  joints. 

SFC.  68.  Cleanouts  will  be  required  at  the  point  where  the 
main  soil-pipe  passes  through  the  foundation  wall  and  at  the 
foot  of  each  vertical  stack  of  soil-pipe. 

Sfc.  69.  All  fixtures  must  be  separately  and  independently 
trapped.  Each  trap  must  be  set  as  close  to  the  fixture  as 
possible,  in  no  case  more  than  eighteen  inches  away.  In  no 
case  must  the  discharge  from  any  fixture  pass  through  more 
than  one  trap  before  reaching  the  soil-pipe. 

Sfc.  70.  All  plumbing  fixtures  must  be  independently  sup- 
plied with  running  water,  and  no  fixture  shall  be  used  with- 
out flushing,  after  the  water  supply  has  been  cut  off. 

When  the  pressure  is  insufficient  to  supply  the  plumbing 
fixtures  on  the  upper  floors  of  a building,  a storage  tank  must 
be  provided ; this  tank  may  be  of  wood  with  or  without  a 
lining,  or  of  iron.  If  a tank  is  lined,  such  lining  must  con- 
sist of  tinned  copper.  The  use  of  sheet  lead,  zinc  or  gal- 
vanized sheet  iron  is  prohibited.  For  all  such  tanks  effective 
means  must  be  provided  to  prevent  waste  of  water. 

Sfc.  71.  Storage  tanks  for  water  must  not  be  located  in 
apartments  where  plumbing  fixtures  are  placed,  and  they 
must  be  provided  with  dust-proof  covers.  Where  exposed 
they  must  be  protected  from  frost. 

Sfc.  72.  Overflow  or  sediment  pipes  from  storage  tanks 
must  not  connect  with  any  soil,  waste  or  vent  pipe. 

Sfc.  73.  All  wastes  from  carriage  washing  floors  or 
garages,  must  be  passed  through  silt  basins  of  ample  size,  to 
be  prescribed  by  the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage,  be- 
fore delivery  to  any  public  sewer ; and  these  silt-basins  must 


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be  cleaned  at  frequent  intervals  and  maintained  in  effective 
condition  at  all  times. 

Sec.  74.  All  work  must  be  done  under  the  direction  of  the 
inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage,  and  all  materials  and 
workmanship  must  be  acceptable  to  him  and  subject  to  his 
approval.  No  part  of  any  work  of  plumbing  construction 
or  alteration  shall  be  enclosed,  covered  or  concealed  until  it 
has  been  examined,  tested  and  approved  by  the  said  in- 
spector. 

The  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage  shall  at  any  time 
between  the  hours  of  8 A.  M.  and  5 P.  M.  have  free  access  to 
all  piping,  connections  and  plumbing  fixtures  in  any  building 
in  the  town  of  East  Providence,  for  the  purpose  of  making 
such  examinations  and  tests  as  he  may  deem  necessary. 

Sec.  75.  Notice  in  writing  must  be  sent  to  said  inspector 
whenever  the  work  is  sufficiently  advanced  for  inspection ; 
but  no  application  for  inspection  of  plumbing  or  drainage 
work  shall  be  received  at  the  office  of  the  said  inspector 
unless  filed  in  writing  upon  blanks  provided  for  the  purpose ; 
and  in  case  it  shall  be  necessary  for  said  inspector  to  inspect 
said  work  more  than  once,  by  reason  of  the  same  not  being 
ready  for  inspection  after  notice  has  been  given  to  said  in- 
spector of  the  completion  of  work,  then  said  inspector  may 
charge  and  collect  from  said  plumber  or  drain-layer  the  sum 
of  one  dollar  for  each  visit  of  inspection  required  to  be  made 
as  aforesaid ; and  all  such  fees  and  fines  collected  by  said  in- 
spector under  this  section  shall  be  retained  by  said  inspector 
as  compensation  for  the  extra  work  caused  by  such  prema- 
ture notice. 

Sec.  76.  Applications  for  final  inspection  of  plumbing  or 
drainage  work  must  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  said  inspector 
by  the  plumber  or  drain-layer  within  forty-eight  hours  after 
the  work  is  completed. 

Sec.  77.  The  entire  plumbing,  drainage  and  ventilation 
system  within  the  building  must  be  subjected  to  two  tests, — 
(a)  before  the  fixtures  are  set  and  (b)  after  the  fixtures  are 
set.  Both  tests  are  to  be  made,  in  the  presence  of  the  inspec- 


tor  of  plumbing  and  drainage,  at  the  expense  of  the  plumber. 

The  first  test  may  be  made  with  air  under  a pressure  of 
ten  pounds,  or  water  under  normal  pressure,  and  must  in- 
clude the  house  and  all  other  drains,  soil,  waste  and  vent 
pipes  and  all  their  branches,  including  all  traps  placed  under 
floors.  During  this  test  all  the  piping  must  be  exposed  and 
remain  uncovered  until  it  has  been  approved.  The  air  test 
must  be  made  with  a force  pump  and  mercury  column. 

The  second  test,  after  the  fixtures  are  set,  must  be  a 
smoke-test. 

S£C.  78.  Any  defects  found  by  the  above  tests  must  be 
remedied  within  one  week  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  inspector 
of  plumbing  and  drainage,  and  the  entire  work  retested  as 
though  no  previous  tests  had  been  made. 

In  addition  to  the  enforcement  of  the  penalties  prescribed 
by  this  chapter  for  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance,  the  said  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage  may, 
at  his  discretion,  refuse  to  receive  or  consider  any  plan  for 
further  work  from  the  party  in  default  until  all  faulty  or  de- 
fective work  has  been  made  acceptable. 

Sue.  79.  Whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the  inspector  of 
plumbing  and  drainage,  any  plumber  or  drain-layer,  in  doing 
any  plumbing  or  house-drainage,  violates  any  of  the  provi- 
sions of  this  chapter,  said  inspector  shall  report  the  same  in 
writing  to  the  town  council  ;and  if  the  town  council  shall  find 
that  the  charges  are  well  founded,  it  may  revoke  the  license 
of  such  plumber  or  drain-layer ; the  town  council  may,  also, 
in  its  discretion,  refer  such  charges  to  the  chief  of  police  for 
prosecution. 

Ssc.  80.  No  person,  firm  or  corporation  once  having  been 
licensed,  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  to  carry  on  the 
business  of  plumbing  or  drain-laying  in  this  town,  who  shall 
have  violated  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  shall 
have  refused  or  neglected  to  make  good,  to  the  satisfaction  of 
the  inspector  of  plumbing  and  drainage,  any  defective,  im- 
perfect or  faulty  work,  or  shall  have  refused  or  neglected  to 
pay  any  of  the  fees,  fines  or  penalties  imposed  under  the  pro- 


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visions  of  this  chapter,  shall,  until  such  default  on  his,  their 
or  its  part  has  been  removed,  be  eligible  to  receive  any  re- 
newal of  such  license. 

SEC.  81.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  who  shall  vio- 
late any  provision  of  this  chapter  shall,  upon  conviction,  be 
fined  not  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  each  offence;  and 
every  twenty-four  hours  continuance  of  such  violation  shall 
constitute  a separate  offence. 


CHAPTER  4. 


NUISANCES. 


Section. 

1.  Suitable  water  closets  or 

privies  to  be  provided. 

2.  Construction  of  privy  vaults 

and  cesspools. 

3.  Town  council  may  order 

what  houses  to  be  con- 
nected with  cesspool. 

4.  Refuse  not  to  be  deposited 

in  privy  vaults  and  cess- 
pools. 

5.  Privies  and  cesspools  to  be 

kept  in  order. 

6.  Privies,  etc.,  not  to  be  al- 

lowed to  become  offensive, 
and  must  be  kept  in  good 
order. 

7.  Subsoil  drain,  may  be  re- 

quired. 

8.  Drinking  water  to  be  pro- 

vided. 

9.  When  wells  may  be  discon- 

tinued. 

10.  Receptacles  for  swill  and 
garbage. 


Section. 

11.  No  filth  allowed  on  prem- 

ises. 

12.  Owners  to  cleanse  buildings 

when  required. 

13.  No  underground  tenements 

allowed. 

14.  No  tenement  to  be  leased 

unless  in  good  order. 

15.  Town  council  may  order  un- 

healthy tenement  vacated. 

16.  Health  officer  to  have  free 

access. 

17.  Poison  ivy  not  permitted. 

18.  Animals  not  allowed  to  go 

loose  or  unfastened 
through  streets  in  com 
pact  part  of  the  town. 

19.  Method  of  abating  nuis- 

. ances. 

20. ’  Penalty  for  violation  of  pro 

visions  of  ordinance. 


Section  1.  Every  dwelling  house,  tenement  house,  or 
other  building  occupied  by  human  beings,  situated  upon  any 
street  through  which  water  is  not  conducted  in  pipes,  shall 
have  at  least  one  suitable  water-closet  or  privy,  properly 
ventilated  and  communicating  directly  with  the  open  air,  for 
every  fifteen  occupants  of  said  dwelling  house,  tenement 
house  or  other  occupied  building;  occupants  of  two  or  more 
houses  may  use  the  same  water-clo§et  or  privy,  if  access 
thereto  be  direct,  and  the  above  proportion  of  users  be  not 
exceeded. 


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Sec.  2.  No  privy,  vault  or  cesspool  shall  hereafter  be  con- 
structed without  special  permit  in  writing  from  the  town 
council,  except  as  may  be  provided  hereinafter  in  section  3. 
No  privy  vault  or  cesspool  shall  hereafter  be  constructed 
where  the  premises  are  situated  on  any  lot  abutting  on  a 
street  or  avenue  having  a foul  water  sewer.  Permits  for 
privy  vaults  or  cesspools,  if  issued  at  all,  will  be  issued  on 
the  condition  that  the  structures  will  be  for  temporary  use 
only,  and  that  their  use  must  cease  and  the  structures  be 
destroyed,  or  cleaned  out,  disinfected  and  filled  up  with 
earth,  sand,  gravel  or  ashes,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  health 
officer,  upon  written  notice  so  to  do  from  the  town  council, 
signed  by  the  council  clerk,  when  and  as  soon  as  connection 
with  a public  sewer  can  be  made ; provided,  nevertheless, 
that  the  town  council,  in  its  discretion,  may  permit  any  cess- 
pool after  the  premises  have  been  connected  with  a public 
sewer,  and  the  cesspool  has  been  cleaned  out  and  disinfected, 
to  be  used  as  a receptacle  for  water  draining  from  the  roofs 
of  dwelling  houses  and  other  buildings. 

No  privy  vaults  may  hereafter  be  constructed  within 
three  feet  of  the  line  of  an  adjoining  lot  (except  by  the  con- 
sent of  the  owner  of  said  lot),  nor  within  two  feet  of  the 
line  of  any  private  or  public  passageway,  and  must  be  so 
constructed  that  no  surface  water  can  find  access  to  said 
vault.  Every  privy  vault  shall  be  sunk  under  the  ground, 
contain  at  least  six  cubic  feet,  be  constructed  of  brick,  stone 
or  Portland  cement,  and  be  made  water  tight.  Every  such 
vault  shall  have  convenient  approaches  for  opening  and 
cleaning,  and  such  approaches  shall  be  properly  covered. 
Each  outhouse  or  compartment  of  an  outhouse  built  over  a 
privy  vault  must  have  independent  and  efficient  means  of 
ventilation.  All  openings,  save  those  of  the  seats,  must  be 
securely  screened  with  copper  or  tinned  wire  netting  of  1G 
mesh,  and  these  screens  must  be  maintained  in  effective  con- 
dition. Each  opening  in  the  seat  must  be  provided  with  a 
close-fitting  hinged  cover,  so  arranged  that  it  will  remain 
open  so  long  as  it  is  held  open,  and  will  close  automatically 
when  the  seat  is  vacated. 


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No  cesspool  hereafter  may  be  constructed  within  twenty 
leet  of  any  street,  road  or  public  place,  or  within  fifty  feet 
of  any  well  or  spring,  the  water  of  which  is  used  for  drink- 
ing purposes,  and,  when  so  required  by  the  town  coun- 
cil, every  cesspool  shall  be  made  watertight.  Every  cesspool 
shall  be  properly  covered  with  stone  or  iron,  so  that  the 
cover  may  be  readily  removed  and  the  contents  inspected. 

No  well  shall  be  used  as  a cesspool  or  privy  vault,  and 
no  cesspool  or  privy  vault  shall  be  allowed  under  a sidewalk 
or  building  occupied  by  human  beings. 

Sec.  3.  The  town  council  may  order  every  lodging  house, 
tenement  house,  or  dwelling  house,  unless  the  same  be  con- 
nected with  a public  sewer,  to  be  provided  with  a cesspool, 
properly  connected  with  the  house  drain,  of  such  dimensions, 
and  built  in  such  situation  and  such  manner  as  it  may,  in  its 
discretion,  determine ; and  it  may  fix  the  time  within  which 
such  order  must  be  complied  with. 

Sec.  4.  No  person  shall  deposit  or  allow  to  be  deposited 
in  any  privy  vault  or  cesspool,  any  ashes,  swill,  rubbish, 
refuse,  or  any  other  such  substance,  except  that  of  which 
any  such  place  is  the  appropriate  receptacle,  nor  shall  any 
surface  water  be  allowed  to  run  into  any  vault  or  cesspool. 

Sec.  5.  No  person  shall  allow  the  contents  of  any  cess- 
pool to  rise  within  one  foot  of  any  part  of  the  top  or  to 
allow  any  privy  vault  or  cesspool  to  become  in  any  way  a 
nuisance  or  offensive ; and  when  required  by  the  town  coun- 
cil, any  owner  of  such  privy  vault  or  cesspool  shall  disinfect 
the  same  in  such  manner  as  may  be  required  by  said  town 
council. 

Sec.  6.  No  person  shall  permit  any  privy,  urinal,  water- 
closet  or  other  fixture,  or  any  drain,  waste  pipe,  soil  pipe  or 
catch  basin  to  become  a nuisance  or  in  any  way  offensive ; nor 
shall  any  person  allow  any  injurious  substance  to  pass  into 
any  drain  or  waste  pipe,  or  allow  any  drain,  waste  pipe  or 
soil  pipe  to  become  obstructed  or  to  leak.  But  if  such  drain, 
waste  pipe  or  soil  pipe  shall  become  obstructed  or  shall  leak, 
the  owner,  agent,  occupant  or  other  person  having  charge 


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of  the  premises  on  which  such  drain,  waste  pipe  or  soil  pipe 
is  situated,  shall  find  and  remove  such  obstruction,  and  find 
and  remove  such  leak.  If  any  sewer  gas  or  foul  odor  shall 
escape  from  any  drain,  soil  pipe,  waste  pipe  or  any  fixture 
into  any  cellar  or  any  part  of  an  occupied  building,  the 
owner,  agent  or  lessee  of  such  cellar  or  building  shall  im- 
mediately find  out  and  remedy  whatever  may  cause  such 
escape. 

SEC.  7.  Every  occupied  building  must,  when  required  by 
the  town  council,  be  provided  with  an  adequate  sub-soil 
drain,  and  the  cellar  walls  and  floors  must  be  made  imper- 
vious to  moisture. 

Pipes  that  must  be  left  open  to  drain  cellars,  areas,  yards 
or  gardens,  must  be  connected  with  suitable  catch  basins,  the 
bottom  of  which  shall  not  be  less  than  two  and  one-half 
feet  below  the  bottpm  of  the  outlet  pipe,  the  diameter  not 
less  than  three  feet,  and  a form  proper  for  the  purpose. 

Sec.  8.  Every  dwelling  house,  tenement  house,  or  other 
occupied  building  shall  have  an  adequate  supply  of  drinkable 
water  at  one  or  more  accessible  points. 

SEC.  9.  Whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the  town  council, 
the  use  of  any  well  or  cistern  is  dangerous  to  health,  the  use 
of  such  well  or  cistern  shall  be  discontinued,  and  such  well 
or  cistern  shall  be  filled  with  ashes,  sand  or  gravel,  or  shall 
have  a suitable  stone  or  iron  cover  cemented  down. 

SEC.  10.  Every  tenement  house,  dwelling  house  or  other 
building  where  swill  and  garbage  shall  accumulate,  shall  be 
provided  with  a suitable  receptacle  for  such  swill  or  garbage, 
and  no  ashes  or  other  rubbish  of  any  kind  shall  be  placed  in 
any  such  receptacle,  nor  shall  any  swill,  garbage  or  offal  be 
placed  in  any  receptacle  for  ashes  or  rubbish,  or  deposited  in 
any  yard  or  vault  or  any  other  place  than  its  proper 
receptacle. 

Sec.  11.  No  owner,  lessee  or  occupant  of  any  building  or 
premises  within  the  town,  shall  deposit  or  allow  to  be  depos- 
ited, or  allow  to  remain  upon  or  in  said  building  or  premises, 
any  dirt,  offal,  decaying  animal  or  vegetable  matter,  or  solid 
or  liquid  filth  of  any  kind,  which,  in  the  opinion  of  the  town 
council,  is  in  any  way  offensive  or  a nuisance. 


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Sec.  12.  Every  owner  or  keeper  of  a lodging  house,  and 
every  owner,  lessee  and  occupant  of  a tenement  house  or 
other  building  leased  for  a dwelling,  shall  thoroughly  cleanse 
all  and  every  part  of  such  house  or  building,  and  shall  also 
thoroughly  cleanse  every  yard,  court,  passage,  area  or  alley 
connected  with  or  belonging  to  the  same  to  the  satisfaction 
of  the  town  council,  whenever  in  the  opinion  of  said  town 
council  it  shall  be  necessary  for  the  health  of  the  occupants 
or  the  public  health. 

Sec.  13.  No  vault,  cellar  or  underground  room  shall  be 
let  or  occupied  separately  as  a dwelling,  nor  in  a tenement  or 
lodging  house,  as  a place  of  lodging  or  sleeping.  A cellar 
shall  mean  any  basement  or  lower  story  of  any  building  or 
house  of  which  one-half  or  more  of  the  height  from  the 
floor  to  the  ceiling  is  below  the  level  of  the  ground  adjoin- 
ing. 

Sec.  14.  No  owner  of  any  building  or  part  thereof  shalf* 
lease  of  let  or  hire  out  the  same  or  any  part  thereof  to  be 
occupied  by  any  person,  or  allow  the  same  to  be  occupied,  if 
said  building  or  any  part  thereof  shall  be  inadequate  or 
defective  in  respect  to  strength,  protection,  ventilation,  light, 
sewerage  or  to  any  other  usual,  proper  or  necessary  pro- 
vision or  precaution  for  the  security  of  life  and  health,  nor 
unless  said  building  and  every  part  thereof  shall  be  in  all 
respects  in  a condition  of  cleanliness  or  wholesomeness. 

Sec.  15.  The  town  council  may  order  the  vacation  of  any 
building  when  satisfied  that  it  is  unfit  for  a dwelling,  because 
infected  or  because  in  any  way  dangerous  to  the  health  of  the 
occupants.  A notice  of  such  vacation  must  be  served  on  the 
occupants  of  such  .building,  and  also  served  on  the  owner, 
agent  or  lessee.  And  such  notices  shall  be  served  by  any 
police  constable  of  the  town.  And  if  the  person  or  persons  so 
notified,  or  any  of  them,  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  remove 
from  and  quit  such  building  within  the  time  specified  in  the 
notice,  the  health  officer  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered 
lorcibly  to  remove  them  when  so  ordered  by  the  town 
council. 


TOWN  OF  FAST  PROVIDENCE. 


Sec.  16.  For  purposes  of  sanitary  inspection,  the  health 
officer,  and  every  person  authorized  by  him,  shall  have  free 
access  to  any  part  of  every  building  and  premises  within 
the  town. 

SEC.  17.  The  owner  or  occupant  of  any  land,  within  the 
limits  of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  upon  which  there  is 
any  poisonous  ivy  or  any  Jamestown  or  Jimson  weed  within 
fifty  feet  of  any  highway  or  street,  and  if  the  land  be  in 
the  compact  part  of  the  town,  within  two  feet  of  any  bound- 
ary line  between  adjacent  owners  (unless  the  adjacent  own- 
ers shall  have  consented  to  the  same),  shall  cause  such  ivy 
or  weed  to  be  removed  within  five  days  after  receiving  notice 
so  to  do  from  the  health  officer. 

Sec.  18.  No  horses,  hogs,  sheep,  goats  or  cattle  shall  be 
allowed  to  go  loose  and  unfastened  through  and  over  the 
streets  and  highways  of  the  compact  parts  of  the  town, 
-'Unless  the  same  are  in  charge  of  a sufficient  number  of  per- 
sons to  keep  said  animals  from  trespassing  upon  the  side- 
walks of  and  the  land  adjoining  and  abutting  upon  said 
streets  and  highways,  and  every  such  trespass  shall  constitute 
an  offence  for  which  the  owner  of  said  animals  and  the 
persons  in  charge  of  the  same  shall  be  severally  responsible. 

Sec.  19.  Whenever  a nuisance  shall  exist  upon  or  in  any 
building  or  premises,  the  health  officer  shall,  except  as  may 
be  otherwise  provided,  issue  a notice  to  the  owner,  lessee  or 
agent  of  such  building  or  premises,  to  abate  such  nuisance 
within  a specified  time,  and  such  notice  shall  be  served  by  any 
police  constable  of  the  town.  If  such  nuisance  be  not  abated 
within  the  specified  time,  the  health  officer  is  authorized  to 
abate  such  nuisance ; provided,  that  the  cost  of  abating  any 
such  nuisance  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars. 
The  town  treasurer  shall  pay  the  expenses  of  the  same,  and 
the  owner  and  lessee  of  such  building  or  premises  shall  be 
severally  liable  therefor,  and  the  same  shall  be  recoverable 
from  the  owner  or  lessee,  by  an  action  in  the  name  of  the 
town  treasurer,  to  the  use  of  the  town  of  East  Providence, 
before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction. 


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Sec.  20.  Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  chap- 
ter wherein  no  penalty  is  herein  otherwise  prescribed,  shall 
be  fined  not  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  every  violation 
thereof,  and  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars  for 
each  day’s  continuance  of  the  said  violation  after  the  ser- 
vice of  the  notice  issued  upon  the  first  complaint. 


CHAPTER  5. 

COMPACT  PART  OF  TOWN. 

Section. 

1.  Compact  part  of  town. 

Section  1.  All  the  territory  lying  within  the  following 
described  lines,  is  hereby  defined  as  the  compact  part  of  the 
town  of  East  Providence,  to  wit : Beginning  at  the  easterly 
abutment  of  Red  bridge,  thence  running  easterly  along  the 
northerly  side  of  Waterman  avenue  to  Massasoit  avenue, 
thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  side  of  Massasoit  ave- 
nue to  Woodward  avenue,  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly 
side  of  Woodward  avenue  to  Goldsmith  avenue,  thence 
southerly  along  the  easterly  side  of  Goldsmith  avenue  to 
Taunton  avenue,  thence  easterly  along  the  northerly  side  of 
Taunton  avenue  to  County  street,  thence  southerly  along  the 
easterly  side  of  County  and  Barnes  streets,  prolonging  the 
line  across  land  of  Margaret  Bullock  to  Mary  street,  thence 
along  the  easterly  side  of  Mary  street  to  Warren  avenue, 
and  thence  prolonging  the  line  to  east  end  of  Bliss  street, 
thence  westerly  along  southerly  side  of  Bliss  street  to  South 
Broadway,  thence  southerly  along  the  easterly  side  of  South 
Broadway  to  the  brook  running  across  Broadway,  near  house 
of  David  Humphrey  deceased,  thence  westerly  along  the 
northerly  side  of  said  brook  to  Bowers  cove,  thence  due  west 
to  Providence  river,  thence  northerly  along  the  easterly  shore 
of  Providence  and  Seekonk  rivers  to  Red  Bridge  and  the 
place  of  beginning. 


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CHAPTER  6. 


BATHING. 


Section. 

1.  Bathing  in  public  in  the  daytime  prohibited — penalty. 

Section  1.  Every  person  who  shall,  unless  properly 
clothed,  bathe  in  any  public  place,  or  within  one-eighth  of  a 
mile  of  any  public  highway  or  any  street,  shall  be  fined  not 
less  than  two  nor  more  than  five  dollars. 


CHAPTER  7. 


STEAM  BOILERS. 


Section. 

1 Steam  boilers  not  be  located 
or  operated  without  con- 
sent of  town  council. 

2.  Method  of  obtaining  such 
consent. 


Section. 

3.  Ordinance  not  to  apply  to 

boilers  located  prior  to 
March  4,  1803. 

4.  Penalty. 


Section  1.  No  person  shall  locate  or  operate  any  steam 
boiler  within  the  limits  of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  ex- 
cept for  the  sole  purpose  of  generating  heat  in  dwelling 
houses  and  other  buildings,  without  the  consent  of  the  town 
council  and  under  such  restrictions  and  regulations  as  it  may 
prescribe. 

SEC.  2.  Every  person  desiring  to  locate  or  operate  a 
steam  boiler  within  the  limits  of  the  town  of  East  Providence 
shall  file  a written  application  therefor  with  the  town  council. 
Upon  receipt  of  such  application  the  town  council  shall  fix 
a day  for  hearing  and  shall  cause  notice  of  the  pendency  of 
said  application,  with  the  place  and  time  of  hearing,  to  be 
given  to  all  persons  interested  therein  by  advertisement,  at 
the  expense  of  the  applicant,  in  some  public  newspaper  pub- 
lished in  the  county  of  Providence,  in  this  state.  And  upon 
the  hearing. of  the  said  application  the  town  council  shall 
grant  or  refuse  the  same,  as,  in  its  judgment,  the  interests  of 
the  public  demand  ; provided,  however,  that  any  person  desir- 
ing to  locate  and  operate  a steam  boiler  temporarily  for  the 


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purpose  of  driving  piles  or  hoisting  building  materials  for 
buildings  in  process  of  erection,  may,  upon  first  obtaining  the 
written  consent  of  any  member  of  the  town  council,  locate 
and  operate  such  steam  boiler,  subject  to  the  restrictions  in 
such  written  consent  contained. 

SEC.  3.  This  ordinance  shall  not  apply  to  the  location  or 
operation  of  any  steam  boiler  located  prior  to  March  4th, 
1903. 

Sec.  4.  Every  person  who  shall  violate  any  provision  of 
this  chapter  shall  upon  conviction  thereof  pay  a fine  of  not 
less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  each 
day’s  continuation  of  such  violation. 


CHAPTER  8. 

GUNPOWDER. 

Section.  Section. 

1.  Regulations  concerning  the  2.  Location  of  powder  houses, 

storing  of  gunpowder; 
penalty  for  keeping  with- 
out license. 

Section  1.  No  person  or  persons  shall  be  permitted  to 
have,  keep  or  store,  within  any  part  of  the  town,  more  than 
twenty-five  pounds  of  gunpowder  or  other  explosives  in  any 
building  or  buildings  without  license  from  the  town  council 
of  said  town,  setting  forth  the  location  ,and  what  kinds  of 
buildings  the  same  are  or  shall  be  kept  in,  under  a fine  of 
twenty  dollars,  for  each  and  every  day  such  person  or  per- 
sons shall  keep  or  suffer  to  be  kept  said  powder  without 
license  as  aforesaid. 

SEC.  2.  In  granting  licenses  for  the  location  or  continu- 
ance of  powder  houses  in  this  town,  the  following  regulation 
shall  be  observed : all  such  buildings  not  to  be  placed  within 
one-fourth  of  a mile  of  any  public  street  or  highway  or  any 
dwelling  house. 


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CHAPTER  9. 

THE  PROTECTION  OF  THE  PUBLIC  AGAINST  DANGER 
FROM  EXPLOSIVES. 


Section. 

1.  No  person  shall  manufac- 

ture high  explosives  with- 
out license. 

2.  Regulations  concerning  stor- 

age of  high  explosives. 

3.  Regulations  concerning 

transportation  of  high  ex- 
plosives. 

4.  Regulations  concerning  stor- 

age of  certain  chemicals, 
etc. 

5.  Regulations  concerning 

acetylene  gas. 


Section. 

6.  Regulations  concerning 

naphtha,  gasoline,  ben- 
zine, etc. 

7 Regulations  concerning  mo- 
tor vehicles. 

8.  Regulations  concerning  sta- 

tionary engines,  motors, 
etc. 

9.  Exceptions. 

10.  Penalties. 


Section  1.  No  person  shall  manufacture  for  sale,  use  or 
other  purpose  any  gun  cotton,  dynamite,  nitroglycerine, 
nitrogelatine,  lyddite,  cordite,  fulminate  or  other  high  ex- 
plosive or  any  substance  a part  of  which  shall  be  gun  cotton, 
dynamite,  nitroglycerine,  nitrogelatine,  picric  acid,  lyddite, 
cordite,  fulminate,  or  other  high  explosive  within  the  town 
of  East  Providence,  unless  a license  for  the  same  shall  be 
first  obtained  from  the  town  council  of  said  town.  Every 
such  license  shall  be  signed  by  the  town  clerk,  and  shall  be 
for  the  term  of  one  year  from  the  date  thereof,  unless  sooner 
revoked  by  order  of  said  town  council,  and  each  such  license 
shall  be  subject  to  such  conditions  and  limitations  as  from 
time  to  time  shall  be  prescribed  by  ordinance  or  by  law,  and 
may  be  revoked  at  any  time  at  the  pleasure' of  said  town 
council. 

Sec.  2.  No  person,  other  than  manufacturers  licensed  as 
aforesaid,  shall  store,  keep  or  have  in  possession  for  any  pur- 
pose or  use,  in  any  building  or  place  within  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  more  than  one  pound  of  gun  cotton,  dynamite, 
nitroglycerine,  nitrogelatine,  lyddite,  cordite,  fulminate  or 
other  high  explosive,  or  more  than  one  pound  of  any  com- 
pound or  substance,  a part  of  which  is  gun  cotton,  dynamite, 
nitroglycerine,  nitrogelatine,  picric  acid,  lyddite,  cordite,  ful- 
minate or  other  high  explosive,  unless  a license  for  the  same 
shall  be  first  obtained  from  the  town  council  of  said  town. 
Every  such  license  shall  be  signed  by  the  town  clerk,  and 


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shall  be  for  the  term  of  one  year  from  the  date  thereof,  un- 
less sooner  revoked  by  order  of  said  town  council,  and  each 
such  license  shall  be  subject  to  such  conditions  and  limitations 
as  from  time  to  time  shall  be  prescribed  by  ordinance  or  by 
law,  and  may  be  revoked  at  any  time  at  the  pleasure  of  said 
town  council : Provided,  that  the  provisions  of  this  sec- 
tin  shall  not  apply  to  the  storing,  keeping  or  having  in  pos- 
session for  any  purpose  or  use  of  a ten  per  centum  or  weaker 
solution  of  nitroglycerine  by  pharmacists,  or  the  combination 
of  gun  cotton  or  other  explosive  in  what  is  known  as  cellu- 
loid ; and  further  provided,  that  the  provisions  of  this  sec- 
tion shall  not  apply  to  the  storing,  keeping  or  having  in  pos- 
session of  any  dynamite  or  other  explosive,  while  being  used 
for  blasting  according  to  and  in  conformity  with  any  rules 
and  regulations,  orders  or  ordinances  which  the  town  coun- 
cil may  have  made,  ordered  or  ordained,  or  may  make,  order 
or  ordain  from  time  to  time. 

SEC.  3.  No  person  shall  transport  any  high  explosive  in, 
on,  or  through  any  street  within  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence, except  in  a vehicle  with  springs  suitable  for  such  pur- 
poses ; and  said  licensee  shall  stamp  or  mark  all  packages  of 
said  high  explosives  sold  by  him  so  as  to  plainly  indicate  the 
dangerous  nature  of  said  package,  and  shall  also  instruct  the 
purchaser  or  his  agent  of  the  dangerous  nature  of  said  pack- 
age and  of  the  requirements  of  this  section  as  to  transporta- 
tion. No  company  or  person  shall  carry  any  high  explosive 
in  any  street  car  within  the  limits  of  said  town. 

Sec.  4.  No  person  shall  store,  keep  or  have  in  possession 
for  any  purpose  or  use  in  any  building  or  place  within  the 
town  of  East  Providence,  in  any  manner  which  shall  be 
dangerous  to  the  public  safety,  any  chemicals,  which  are 
made  dangerous  by  contact  with  heat,  water,  moisture,  or 
with  each  other.  No  quantity  of  sodium  peroxide,  calcium 
carbide,  or  other  chemicals,  which  are  made  dangerous  by 
contact  with  water  or  moisture,  shall  be  stored  or  kept  below 
the  ground  floor  of  any  building,  nor  shall  any  sodium 


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peroxide  or  any  calcium  carbide  be  stored  or  kept  except  in 
air-tight  metal  cans. 

Sec.  5.  No  person  shall  manufacture  or  use  acetylene 
gas  within  the  town  of  East  Providence  unless  such  person 
shall  first  notify  the  town  council  of  said  town  of  the  place 
or  location  where  such  manufacture  or  use  is  to  be  carried 
on,  and  unless  the  apparatus  used  and  the  method  of  instal- 
lation shall  comply  with  the  requirements  of  the  National 
Board  of  Fire  Underwriters.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall 
apply  to  the  use  of  acetylene  gas  as  an  illuminant  for  auto- 
mobiles. 

Sec.  6.  No  person  shall  store,  keep  or  have  in  posses- 
sion for  any  purpose  or  use  in  any  building  or  place  within 
the  town  of  East  Providence  more  than  five  gallons  of 
naphtha,  gasoline  or  benzine  or  other  product  of  petroleum 
that  will  flash  or  inflame  at  a less  temperature  than  110  de- 
grees Farenheit,  unless  such  person  shall  have  first  filed  with 
the  town  council  a statement  of  the  maximum  quantity  of 
the  same  to  be  kept,  stored  or  had  in  possession,  and  of  the 
place  where  and  manner  in  which  the  same  is  to  be  kept, 
stored  or  had  in  possession  by  such  person,  and  unless  said 
council,  with  regard  to  the  public  safety,  shall  have  first  ap- 
proved the  maximum  quantity,  place  where  and  manner  in 
which  same  is  to  be  stored,  kept  or  had  in  possession,  and 
the  same  shall  not  be  stored,  kept  or  had  in  possession  by 
such  person  in  any  greater  quantity  or  in  any  other  place  or 
manner  than  as  specified  in  said  approval,  but  any  such  ap- 
proval may  be  rescinded  at  any  time  at  the  pleasure  of  said 
town  council.  Not  more  than  five  barrels  in  the  aggregate 
of  any  one  or  more  of  said  substances  shall  be  stored  or  kept 
in  any  building  or  place  within  the  compact  part  of  said  town, 
except  in  a steel  tank  or  tanks,  which  shall  be  located  under 
ground,  the  top  of  which,  if  located  in  any  building,  shall  be 
below  the  level  of  the  lowest  floor  or  basement  in  the  building 
containing  the  same,  and  all  pipes  of  which  shall  be  arranged 
to  drain  back  into  the  supply  tank;  or,  if  in  the  opinion  of 
said  town  council,  the  public  safety  will  be  as  well  or  better 


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protected  by  having  said  tank  or  tanks  in  any  particular  loca- 
tion, otherwise  than  underground,  then  in  such  other  location 
as  may  be  approved  by  said  town  council,  but  any  such  ap- 
proval may  be  rescinded  at  any  time  at  the  pleasure  of  said 
town  council.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  apply  to  the 
storing  of  more  than  ten  barrels  in  the  aggregate  of  any  one 
or  more  of  such  substances  in  any  one  building  or  place,  the 
storing  of  such  large  quantities  being  governed  by  chapter  10 
of  the  ordinances  of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  nor  to  the 
storing  or  keeping  of  naphtha,  benzine,  gasoline  or  other 
product  of  petroleum  in  the  tank  of  vehicles  using  the  same 
for  fuel  or  motive  power. 

Sec.  7.  No  person  shall  have,  store  or  keep  in  any  one 
building  within  said  town,  more  than  three  vehicles  using 
naphtha,  benzine,  gasoline  or  other  product  of  petroleum 
that  will  flash  or  inflame  at  a less  temperature  than  110  de- 
grees Farenheit,  for  fuel  or  motive  power,  unless  such  per- 
son shall  have  first  filed  with  said  town  council  a statement 
cf  the  number  of  such  vehicles  to  be  there  had,  stored  or 
kept,  the  place  where  and  the  manner  in  which  the  same  are 
to  be  there  had,  stored  or  kept,  and  unless  said  council,  with 
regard  to  the  public  safety,  shall  have  first  approved  the  place 
where  and  the  manner  in  which  the  same  are  to  be  there  had, 
stored  or  kept,  and  the  same  shall  not  be  there  had,  stored 
or  kept  in  any  greater  number,  or  in  any  other  place  or  man- 
ner, than  as  specified  in  said  approval,  but  any  such  approval 
at  any  time  may  be  rescinded  at  the  pleasure  of  said  town 
council. 

Sec.  8.  No  stationary  engine,  motor  or  other  stationary 
apparatus  or  device  using  naphtha,  benzine,  gasoline  or  other 
product  of  petroleum  that  will  flash  or  inflame  at  a less  tem- 
peature  than  110  degrees,  Farenheit,  the  supply  tank  of 
which  contains  more  than  two  gallons  of  the  same,  shall  be 
installed,  operated  or  used  within  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence, unless  the  apparatus  used  and  the  method  of  installa- 
tion shall  comply  with  the  requirements  of  the  National 
Board  of  Underwriters,  and  unless  a license  for  the  same 
shall  be  first  obtained  from  the  town  council  of  the  town  of 


TOWN  OE  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 


East  Providence.  Every  such  license  shall  be  signed  by  the 
town  clerk,  and  shall  be  for  the  term  of  one  year  from  the 
date  thereof,  unless  sooner  revoked  by  order  of  said  town 
council,  and  each- such  license  shall  be  subject  to  such  condi- 
tions and  limitations  as  from  time  to  time  shall  be  prescribed 
by  ordinance  or  by  law,  and  may  be  revoked  at  any  time  at 
the  pleasure  of  said  town  council. 

SEC.  9.  The  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  not  apply 
to  any  of  the  articles  or  substances  specified  herein,  while 
they  are  in  the  possession  of  railroad  or  steamship  com- 
panies, except  in  street  cars  as  provided  in  section  3 of  the 
ordinance,  for  the  purpose  of  transportation,  unless  the  same 
shall  be  held  voluntarily  by  them  as  warehouse  men. 

Sec.  10.  Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  ordi- 
nance shall  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dolars  for  each  such  offence. 


CHAPTER  10. 


OF  PETROLEUM  OIL,  KEROSENE.  COAL  OIL,  THEIR 
PRODUCTS,  COMPOUNDS  AND  COMPONENTS. 


Section. 

1.  Warehouses,  tanks,  etc.,  for 

storage  of  kerosene  oil, 
etc.,  not  to  be  located 
without  permission  of 
town  council. 

2.  Regulations  concerning 

structures  to  store  kero- 
sene, etc. 


Section. 

3.  Regulations  concerning 

groups  of  tanks,  etc. 

4.  Structures  must  be  main- 

tained in  good  order. 

5.  Penalties. 


Section  1.  No  person  shall,  from  and  after  the  passage 
of  this  ordinance,  locate,  construct  or  erect  within  the  limits 
of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  any  warehouse,  tank  or 
other  building  or  structure  for  the  storage  of  petroleum  oil, 
kerosene  or  coal  oil,  or  their  products,  compounds  or  com- 
ponents, in  a quantity  exceeding  ten  barrels,  without  first 
obtaining  permission  therefor  from  the  town  council  of  said 
town. 

SEC.  2.  No  tank  or  similar  structure  for  the  storing  of 


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petroleum  oil,  kerosene  or  coal  oil,  or  their  products,  com- 
pounds or  components,  in  a quantity  exceeding  ten  barrels, 
shall  hereafter  be  located,  placed  or  erected  within  the  limits 
of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  unless  the  said  tank  or  other 
similar  structure  is  set  or  placed  upon  a substantial  fireproof 
foundation,  laid  within  a pit  excavated  from  the  natural 
surface  of  the  earth  to  a sufficient  depth  so  that  the  cubical 
capacity  of  said  pit,  exclusive  of  the  foundation  of  said  tanl^: 
or  similar  structure,  shall  equal  or  exceed  the  cubical  capacity 
of  the  said  tank  or  other  similar  structure,  or  unless  the  said 
tank  or  other  similar  structure  is  surrounded  by  an  embank- 
ment forming  a basin  about  the  said  tank  or  other  similar 
structure,  said  basin  having  a cubical  capacity,  exclusive  of 
the  fireproof  foundation  of  said  tank  or  other  similar  struct- 
ure, equal  to  or  exceeding  the  cubical  capacity  of  said  tank  or 
other  similar  structure,  and  unless  the  retaining  walls  of  the 
said  pit,  or  the  embankment  surrounding  the  said  basin,  are 
so  constructed  as  to  effectually  retain  the  contents  of  said 
tank  or  other  similar  structure  and  prevent  the  overflow  of 
the  said  contents  beyond  the  said  retaining  walls  or  said  em- 
bankment. Every  such  embankment,  forming  a basin  about  a 
tank  or  other  similar  structure,  shall  be  of  a width  at  the  top 
of  not  less  than  two  feet,  and  have  a slope  of  not  less  than 
one  and  one-half  to  one,  that  is,  the  horizontal  base  line  of 
each  slope  shall  be  not  less  than  one  and  one-half  feet  to 
every  one  foot  of  the  vertical  line. 

Sec.  3.  No  group  of  two  or  more  tanks  or  similar  struct- 
ures for  the  storing  of  petroleum  oil,  kerosene  or  coal  oil,  or 
their  products,  compounds  or  components  in  a quantity  ex- 
ceeding ten  barrels,  shall  hereafter  be  located,  placed  or 
erected  within  the  limits  of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  un- 
less such  tanks  or  similar  structures  are  erected  in  the  man- 
ner provided  for  in  section  2 of  this  ordinance,  and  if  so 
required  by  the  town  council,  unless  between  each  of  the 
tanks  or  similar  structures  in  such  group  a fireproof  division 
is  built,  and  unless,  if  so  required  by  the  town  council,  every 
such  group  of  two  or  more  tanks  is  inclosed  within  fireproof 


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walls  and  covered  with  a fireproof  roof  properly  ventilated  to 
insure  the  escape  of  dangerous  gases. 

SEC.  4.  All  tanks  and  similar  structures,  all  retaining 
walls  and  embankments,  all  fireproof  divisions,  walls  and 
roofs,  in  the  preceding  sections  mentioned,  must  at  all  times 
be  kept  and  maintained  in  good  order  and  sound  condition. 

SEC.  5.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any.  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  ordinance  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be 
fined  for  any  one  offence,  not  exceeding  two  hundred  dollars, 
or  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  six  months,  or  both,  and 
every  twenty-four  hours  continuance  of  said  violation  shall 
constitute  a separate  offence  for  which,  upon  conviction 
thereof,  the  violator  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  two  hundred 
dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  six  months,  or  both. 


CHAPTER  11. 

MALICIOUS  INJURY. 

Section.  I Section. 

1.  Injury  to  lamps,  etc.,  pro-  2.  Defacing  trees,  fences,  etc., 

hibited;  fine.  I prohibited;  fines. 

Section  1.  Every  person  who  shall  maliciously,  wanton- 
ly or  carelessly  break,  throw  down,  extinguish  or  otherwise 
injure  any  lamp  or  lantern,  erected  for  the  purpose  of  light- 
ing any  street,  highway,  bridge,  wharf  or  public  place  or 
ground  set  apart  for  public  purposes  in  this  town,  whether 
the  same  shall  have  been  erected  by  the  town  or  any  other 
corporation,  or  by  any  individual,  shall  pay  a fine  of  not 
less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars. 

SEC.  2.  Every  person  who  shall  maliciously,  wantonly  or 
carelessly  daub  with  paint,  cut,  break,  or  otherwise  injure,  or 
by  scratching  or  writing  with  paint,  blacking,  chalk,  or  in  any 
other  way  or  manner  deface  any  post,  lamp  post,  fence,  tree, 
tree  box,  house  or  other  building,  situate  in  or  upon  any 
street,  highway,  bridge,  wharf  or  public  place  or  ground  set 
apart  for  public  purposes  in  this  town,  or  any  ornament  or 


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appurtenance  of  such  post,  lamp  post,  fence,  tree,  tree  box, 
house  or  other  building,  shall  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  five 
nor  more  than  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  12. 

DRUNKENNESS  AND  REVELLING. 

Section. 

1.  Improper  conduct;  penalty. 

Section  1.  Any  person  who  shall  be  found  intoxicated 
under  such  circumstances  as  to  amount  to  a violation  of  de- 
cency, or  who  shall  commit  any  nuisance,  or  who  'shall  be 
found  quarrelling,  fighting,  revelling,  or  wantonly  making  a 
false  alarm  or  cry  of  fire,  or  otherwise  behaving  in  a disor- 
derly or  indecent  manner,  to  the  disturbance  of  the  orderly 
people  of  this  town,  or  shall  aid,  incite  or  encourage  the  same 
to  be  done,  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  be  sentenced  to  pay  a 
fine  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  not  ex- 
ceeding ten  days  in  Providence  county  jail,  and  to  pay  all 
costs  of  prosecution  and  conviction. 


CHAPTER  13. 

DRUNKENNESS. 

Section. 

1.  Drunkenness — penalty  therefor. 

Section  1.  Any  person  who  shall  be  found  intoxicated 
under  such  circumstances  as  to  amount  to  a violation  of  de- 
cency, in  any  highway,  street,  gangway,  court,  square  or 
other  public  place  in  this  town,  shall,  upon  conviction  there- 
of, be  fined  for  each  and  every  offence  not  less  than  one 
dollar  nor  more  than  ten  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  in  the 
Providence  county  jail  not  exceeding  ten  days,  and  to  pay  all 
costs  of  prosecution  and  conviction,  and  to  stand  committed 
to  the  Providence  county  jail  until  sentence  be  performed  in 
all  its  parts. 


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CHAPTER  14. 
CATTLE. 


Section.  Section. 

1.  Horses,  goats,  or  cattle  of  2.  Penalty, 

any  kind,  prohibited  from 
running  at  large. 


Section  1.  It  shall  not  lawful  for  any  horses,  goats, 
hogs,  or  cattle  of  any  kind,  to  go  at  large  within  the  limits  of 
the  town  of  East  Providence. 

SEC.  2.  Every  person  having  the  charge  and  custody  of 
any  animal  found  at  large  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  two  nor  more  than 
twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  15. 
BOUNDS  AND  SIGN-BOARDS. 


Section. 

1.  Malicious  or  wanton  injuries 
to  monuments  or  other 
memorials  erected  for  the 
purpose  of  designating 


Section. 

boundaries  of  streets, 
highways  or  turnpikes. 

2.  Penalty. 


Section  1.  No  person  shall  wantonly  break  down,  in- 
jure, remove,  mar,  or  destroy  any  monument  or  other  memo- 
rial erected  for  the  purpose  of  designating  the  boundaries 
of  any  street,  highway  or  turnpike,  or  any  certain  platted 
street,  highway  or  turnpike,  in  this  town,  or  any  tree,  stake  or 
other  thing  marked  for  that  purpose,  nor  break  down,  injure, 
remove,  mar  or  destroy  any  mile-stone,  street  sign-board,  or 
mile-board  erected  upon  a highway  or  turnpike,  nor  wantonly 
deface  or  alter  the  inscription  of  any  such  stone,  board  or 
tree. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  provision  of  the 
foregoing  section  of  this  ordinance,  shall  be  sentenced  to  pay 
for  each  and  every  ofifense  a fine  of  not  less  than  one  dollar 
nor  more  than  twenty  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  in  the  Provi- 
dence county  jail  not  exceeding  ten  days. 


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CHAPTER  16. 

CURBING. 

Section. 

1.  Description  of  curbing. 

Section  1.  All  the  curbing  set  by  or  under  the  authority 
of  the  highway  officers,  unless  otherwise  ordered  by  the  town 
council,  shall  be  of  the  following  description,  viz. : of  good 

granite,  seven  inches  thick  on  top,  and  eighteen  inches  deep, 
to  be  cut  on  top,  and  also  eight  inches  on  the  face,  and  jointed 
to  line  on  the  back  at  the  top. 


CHAPTER  17. 

FOWLS. 

Section.  I Section. 

1.  Prohibits  the  going  at  large  2.  PTne. 

of  fowls.  I 

Section  1.  It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  geese,  turkeys, 
hens,  ducks  or  domestic  fowls  of  any  kind  to  go  at  large  with- 
in the  limits  of  the  compact  parts  of  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence. 

Sec.  2.  Every  person  having  the  charge  and  custody  of 
any  fowls  found  at  large,  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  this 
chapter,  shall  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor  more 
ihan  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  18. 

SWINE. 

Section.  I Section. 

1.  Keeping  swine.  I 2.  Penalty. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  keep  any  swine  within  the  dis- 
tance of  three  hundred  feet  of  the  residence  of  any  other  per- 
son without  first  obtaining  a written  permit  from  the  health 
officer,  and  permits  so  granted  may  be  revoked  by  said  health 


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officer  upon  request  of  any  person  or  persons  owning  or  occu- 
pying residences  within  said  distance,  or  whenever  in  the 
opinion  of  said  health  officer  the  premises  where  said  swine 
are  kept  become  offensive,  and  the  owner  or  keeper  thereof 
neglects  and  refuses  to  remedy  the  same. 

SEC.  2.  Any  person  keeping  swine  contrary  to  the  provis- 
ions of  this  ordinance  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  two  nor 
more  than  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  19. 

PLACES  OF  TRADE. 

Section.  I Section. 

1.  Shops,  etc.,  not  to  open  af-  2.  Fine, 

ter  eleven  o’clock  at  night.  I 

Section  1.  No  shop,  store,  or  other  place  of  trade  or  en- 
tertainment in  this  town,  excepting  licensed  taverns,  phar- 
macies, and  victualling  houses,  shall  be  kept  open  between 
eleven  o’clock  at  night  and  four  o’clock  in  the  morning,  and 
no  victualing  house  shall  be  kept  open  between  two  o’clock 
and  four  o’clock  in  the  morning. 

Sec.  2.  Every  keeper  of  any  shop,  store,  or  place  of  trade 
or  entertainment  or  place  of  business,  which  shall  be  opened 
or  kept  open  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  sec- 
tion, and  every  person  opening  any  shop,  store,  or  place  of 
trade  or  entertainment,  or  place  of  business,  contrary  to  the 
provisions  of  this  ordinance,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  five 
dollars  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars. 


CHAPTER  20. 


PERMANENT  POLICE  FORCE. 


Section. 

1.  Number  of  permanent  force 
and  duties. 


Section. 

2.  Qualifications  for  appoint- 
ment to  permanent  police 
force. 


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Section. 


Section. 


3.  Preliminary  service  required 
before  appointment,  etc. 


7.  Duties  of  sergeant  in  ab- 
sence of  chief. 


4.  Agreement  to  be  entered 
into. 


8.  Sergeants  subject  to  chief 
and  town  council. 


5.  Continuation  in  force  of 
previous  orders,  rules,  etc. 


9.  Compensation  and  fees, 
fines  and  penalties. 


6.  Duties  of  chief. 


10.  Not  to  interfere  with  elec- 
tions. 


Section  1.  The  permanent  police  force  of  the  town, 
which  may  be  appointed  under  the  provisions  of  Chapter 
1275  of  the  Public  Laws,  passed  at  the  January  session,  A. 
D.  1905,  of  the  General  Assembly,  shall  consist  of  not  more 
than  fifteen  police  constables,  to  wit:  One  Chief  of  Police, 
two  Sergeants  of  Police  and  not  more  than  12  patrolmen. 

They  shall  devote  their  entire  time  to  the  preservation  of 
the  peace  and  order  of  the  town,  and  discharge  such  other 
duties,  either  by  day  or  by  night,  as  by  special  orders  they 
may  be  required  to  perform. 

Sec.  2.  The  following  qualifications  shall  be  necessary  to 
secure  an  appointment  as  a member  of  the  permanent  police 
force  of  this  town : 

First.  The  applicant  must  be  a resident  of  the  state  and 
a qualified  elector  of  the  town. 

Second.  He  must  not  be  under  twenty-five  nor  over  forty 
years  of  age  when  first  appointed ; in  stature  not  less  than 
live  feet,  eight  and  one-half  inches;  in  weight  not  less  than 
one  hundred  and  fifty-five  pounds;  the  minimum  circumfer- 
ence of  chest  not  less  than  thirty-four  inches;  there  shall  be 
a difference  of  at  least  two  inches  in  the  chest  measurement 
at  forced  expiration  and  in  full  inspiration ; with  additional 
height  there  shall  be  an  increase,  in  a proportionate  degree, 
of  weight  and  chest  measurement,  and  the  weight  and  chest 
measurements  of  applicants  shall  be  of  the  body  without 
clothing. 

Third.  He  must  be  of  sound  health  and  vigor,  without 
any  predisposition,  either  hereditary  or  acquired,  to  any  con- 
stitutional disease;  of  unquestionable  energy  and  courage;  of 
temperate  and  industrious  habits ; of  peaceable  and  courte- 
ous manners ; decorous  and  cleanly  in  his  person  and  dress ; 


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respectful  to  his  superiors ; prompt  and  decided  in  action, 
and  disposed  to  be  zealous  in  the  service. 

Fourth.  He  must  be  able  to  speak,  read  and  write  the 
English  language. 

Applicants  for  appointment  as  members  of  the  perma- 
nent police  shall  present  a petition  to  the  town  council  in  their 
own  handwriting,  stating  age,  height,  weight,  place  of  birth, 
residence  and  occupation,  whether  married  or  single,  and 
whether  or  not  a resident  of  the  town,  with  such  references 
as  to  character  and  qualifications  as  they  shall  think  proper. 

Before  any  applicant  shall  be  appointed  he  shall  present  a 
certificate  from  some  physician  appointed  by  the  town  coun- 
cil that  he  is  mentally  and  physically  qualified. 

All  applicants  who  shall  receive  such  certificate  from  said 
physician  and  who  shall  have  received  not  less  than  seventy 
per  cent,  upon  the  examination  preliminary  to  granting  said 
certificate,  shall  be  placed  upon  a reserve  list,  and  shall  be 
'eligible  for  appointment  at  any  time  within  five  years  from 
the  date  of  said  certificate  upon  passing  a satisfactory  phy- 
sical examination. 

Sec.  3.  No  person  shall  be  appointed  a member  of  the 
permanent  police  force  of  the  town  until  he  has  complied 
with  the  requirements  of  this  ordinance,  and  until  he  has 
served  at  least  six  months  as  a special  constable  from  the 
date  of  his  appointment ; and  at  some  time  during  the  said 
six  months  the  newly  appointed  officer  shall  be  required  to 
appear  be'fore  the  police  committee  of  the  town  council,  when 
a list  of  questions,  approved  by  said  police  committee,  on 
the  “Rules  and  Regulations  of  the  Town  Council  of  East 
Providence  for  the  Government  of  the  Police  Force,”  the 
town  ordinances  and  the  state  laws  pertaining  to  the  duties 
of  a police  officer,  shall  be  submitted  to  the  applicant,  who 
must  answer  the  questions  in  writing  in  the  presence  of  one 
or  more  of  the  members  of  said  police  committee,  and  at 
least  seventy  per  cent,  of  them  correctly. 

He  shall  also  be  required  to  be  re-examined  by  some  phy- 
sician, appointed  by  the  town  council,  who  shall  certify  to 


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the  physical  condition  of  the  applicant.  If  the  applicant 
does  not  come  up  to  the  standard  of  percentage  required  on 
examination,  or  if  his  physical  condition,  on  re-examination, 
be  not  satisfactory,  he  shall  not  be  appointed  a member  of 
the  permanent  police  force  at  the  expiration  of  said  six 
months  from  the  date  of  his  appointment  as  a special  con- 
stable; but,  if  he  pass  the  said  examination  successfully,  he 
may  thereupon  be  appointed  a member  of  said  permanent 
force. 

SEC.  4.  Before  entering  upon  the  discharge  of  his  duty  as 
a member  of  the  permanent  police  force  of  the  town,  every 
appointee  shall  be  duly  engaged  upon  his  commission,  and 
shall  also  subscribe  his  name  to  the  following  agreement : 

“ I hereby  accept  the  office  of in  the 

permanent  police  force  of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  and 
agree  to  obey  and  be  bound  by  such  rules  and  regulations  as 
are  or  may  be  from  time  to  time  prescribed,  and  such  ordi- 
nances as  are  or  may  be  from  time  to  time  ordained,  for  the 
government  of  the  permanent  police  force  of  said  town.” 

Sec.  5.  All  ordinances  respecting  the  police,  all  rules  and 
regulations  for  their  government,  and  all  resolutions  and 
votes  concerning  the  present  police  of  the  town,  so  far  as  the 
same  are  applicable  and  not  inconsistent  with  the  provisions 
of  said  Chapter  1275  of  the  Public  Laws  and  the  provisions 
of  this  chapter,  are  hereby  continued  in  force  for  the  direc- 
tion and  government  of  the  permanent  police  appointed 
under  said  Chapter  1275  of  the  Public  Laws. 

Sec.  6.  The  chief  of  police  shall  be  at  the  head  of  the 
police  department  and  shall  have  precedence  and  entire  con- 
trol of  the  department,  its  officers  and  members  when  en- 
gaged in  the  service  of  the  town ; the  chief,  however,  and  all 
the  officers  and  members  of  the  police  force  being  subject 
to  the  orders  of  the  town  council.  He  shall  have  his  head- 
quarters and  be  on  duty  at  any  place  or  places  within  the 
town  of  East  Providence,  which  the  town  council  may  from 
time  to  time,  by  order  designate,  and  shall  make  such  trans- 
fers of  the  officers  and  members  of  the  police  force  as  the 


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town  council  may,  from  time  to  time,  by  order  direct.  He 
shall  devote  his  entire  time  to  the  affairs  of  the  town,  to 
preserve  the  peace,  order  and  cleanliness  thereof ; and  to 
this  end  shall  execute  and  enforce  the  special  laws  of  the 
state  relating  to  the  town,  and  the  ordinances  and  orders  of 
the  town  council ; he  shall  cause  proceedings  to  be  instituted 
for  the  prosecution  of  violations  of  the  laws  and  ordinances 
and  attend  to  the  trial  of  the  same. 

Sec.  7.  In  the  absence  of  the  chief  from  the  town,  or  in 
case  of  his  disability,  the  sergeant  of  police  designated  by  the 
town  council  shall  attend  to  all  the  duties  of  said  office,  and 
exercise  all  the  authority  vested  in  that  office. 

Sec.  8.  The  sergeants  of  police  shall  be  subject  to  the 
orders  of  the  chief  of  police,  and  shall  perform  such  duties  as 
shall  be  assigned  to  them  by  the  chief  of  police  and  town 
council  of  said  town. 

Sec.  9.  The  officers  and  members  of  the  police  force  shall 
receive  such  compensation,  payable  monthly,  as  the  town 
council  may  from  time  to  time,  determine ; and  all  fees,  fines 
and  penalties  received  in  any  case  in  which  the  town  or  state 
is  a party,  including  witness  fees  in  criminal  cases,  (except- 
ing, however,  witness  fees  received  by  night  officers,  in  courts 
other  than  the  Court  of  the  Seventh  Judicial  District),  and 
all  compensation  for  services  rendered  in  an  official  capacity, 
or  within  the  hours  prescribed  for  official  duty,  received  by 
any  officer  or  member  of  the  police  department,  shall  be  paid 
over  to  the  town  by  the  officer  receiving  the  same,  before  he 
shall  be  entitled  to  receive  his  regular  pay. 

Sec.  10.  No  member  of  the  police  force  shall  advocate,  or 
in  any  way  assist  in  or  attempt  to  defeat,  the  election  of  any 
officer  or  group  of  officers,  or  candidate  or  group  of  can- 
didates for  office  in  this  town,  but  this  ordinance  shall  not 
be  construed  to  prevent  the  casting  of  their  ballots  at  cau- 
cuses or  elections  by  such  members.  Any  violation  of  this 
section  will  be  sufficient  cause  for  the  removal  from  office 
of  the  member  guilty  thereof. 


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CHAPTER  21. 


POLICE  AND  SPECIAL  CONSTABLES. 


Section. 


Section. 


1.  Police  constables  and  spe- 
cial officers  subject  to 
chief  of  police. 


4.  Town  treasurer  to  collect  for 
services  of  special  officers. 


3.  Compensation  of  such  offi- 
cers. 


2.  Regulations  governing  police 
service  at  places  of  public 
entertainment. 


Section  1.  All  police  constables,  who  are  not  appointed 
officers  or  patrolmen  of  the  permanent  police  force  of  the 
town,  and  all  special  constables  without  power  to  serve  civil 
process,  when  employed  in  the  service  of  the  town,  in  the 
execution  of  the  laws  of  the  state,  the  ordinances  of  the 
town,  and  the  orders  of  the  town  council,  shall,  except  as 
may  be  otherwise  provided  by  the  statutes  of  the  state,  be 
subject  to  and  under  the  control  and  direction  of  the  chief 
of  police,  in  the  manner,  to  the  extent  and  with  the  limita- 
tions governing  the  permanent  police  force  provided  in 
chapter  20  of  the  ordinances  of  the  town. 

Sec.  2.  All  persons  and  bodies  corporate  who  desire  the 
attendance  and  services  of  police  at  places  of  public  enter- 
tainment and  resort,  shall,  except  as  may  be  otherwise  pro- 
vided by  the  statutes  of  the  state,  make  application  therefor 
to  the  chief  of  police.  With  every  such  application  shall  be 
presented  a certificate  from  the  town  treasurer,  showing  that 
there  has  been  deposited  by  the  applicant  with  him  a sum  of 
money  sufficient  in  amount  to  pay  the  men  for  whom  appli- 
cation has  been  made,  at  the  rate  of  compensation  fixed  and 
determined  by  the  town  council,  for  the  entire  period  for 
whidh  such  service  may  be  required ; provided,  however,  that 
when  the  services  are  required  for  a longer  period  than  two 
weeks  the  advance  payments  therefor  may  be  made  on  the 
first  and  the  fifteenth  secular  days  of  each  and  every  month 
during  the  continuance  of  such  services.  Upon  the  receipt 
of  such  application  and  certificate,  the  chief  of  police,  with 
the  approval  of  the  police  committee  of  the  town  council, 
shall  designate  and  assign  from  the  police  and  special  con- 
stables who  are  not  members  of  the  permanent  police  force 


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of  the  town,  the  required  number  of  men  for  such  service ; 
provided,  nevertheless,  that  this  shall  not  prevent,  when  nec- 
essary or  desirable,  the  assignment  of  a member  of  the  per- 
manent police  force  for  attendance  upon  and  service  at  any 
place  of  public  entertainment  or  resort. 

Sec.  3.  The  town  council  shall,  from  time  to  time,  fix  and 
determine  the  amount  of  compensation  to  be  paid  to  the 
police  and  special  constables  assigned  for  service  under  the 
preceding  section  of  this  chapter. 

Sec.  4.  The  town  treasurer  shall  collect  from  the  appli- 
cants under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  the  advance  pay- 
ments for  the  services  to  be  performed  by  such  police  and 
special  constables;  and  out  of  the  advance  payments  so  by 
him  collected  he  shall  pay  such  police  and  special  constables 
assigned  for  service  under  provisions  of  section  2 of  this 
chapter  the  several  sums  due  them  for  the  services  by  them 
performed  ; and  such  payments  shall  be  made  at  the  rates 
fixed  and  determined  by  the  town  council,  and  at  the  same 
time  and  in  the  same  manner  as  payments  are  made  to  the 
members  of  the  permanent  police  force  of  the  town. 


CHAPTER  22. 


FIRE  DEPARTMENT. 


Section. 

1.  Town  divided  into  seven  fire 

districts. 

2.  What  companies  comprise 

fire  department  of  town. 

3.  Several  companies  to  have 

control  in  their  respective 
districts. 


Section. 

4.  Companies  may  assist  out 

side  of  their  districts. 

5.  Reports  to  be  made. 


Section  1.  The  town  of  East  Providence  is  hereby  di- 
vided into  seven  fire  districts,  bounded,  described  and  desig- 
nated as  follows,  to  wit : 

1.  All  that  part  of  the  town  south  of  a line  beginning  at 
the  junction  of  Pawtucket  and  Bullock’s  Point  avenues  and 
extending  from  said  point  due  west  to  Narragansett  Bay  and 
due  east  to  the  boundary  line  between  the  States  of  Rhode 


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Island  and  Massachusetts,  shall  be  designated  the  Narragan- 
sett  District. 

2.  All  that  part  of  the  town  north  of  the  said  northerly 
boundary  of  the  Narragansett  District  and  south  of  a line 
beginning  at  the  northwesterly  corner  of  the  estate  of  the 
late  James  H.  Armington  on  Pawtucket  avenue  and  extend- 
ing due  east  to  the  state  line  and  due  west  to  the  salt  water, 
shall  be  designated  the  Pomham  District. 

3.  All  that  part  of  the  town  north  of  the  said  northerly 
boundary  of  the  Pomham  District  and  south  of  the  line  be- 
ginning at  the  mouth  of  a*  small  brook  emptying  into  the 
head  of  Watchemoket  Cove,  thence  running  easterly  in  a 
straight  line  to  the  junction  of,  Brightridge  and  Pawtucket 
avenues  and  thence  due  east  to  the  state  line,  shall  be  desig- 
nated the  Bay  View  District. 

4.  All  that  part  of  the  town  northerly  of  said  north 
boundary  line  of  the  Bay  View  District  and  south  of  a line 
beginning  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Massasoit  avenue  and 
North  Broadway,  thence  extending  northwesterly  through 
Massasoit  and  Walker  avenues  to  the  Seekonk  river  and  due 
south  east  from  said  point  to  the  state  line,  shall  be  desig- 
nated as  the  Engine  and  Hose  Company  No.  4 District. 

5.  All  that  part  of  the  town  north  of  a line  beginning  at 
the  southwest  corner  of  Massasoit  avenue  and  North  Broad- 
way, extending  north-westerly  through  Massasoit  and  Walk- 
er avenues  to  the  Seekonk  river  and  west  of  a line  beginning 
at  said  south-west  corner  of  Massasoit  avenue  and  north 
Broadway,  and  thence  running  westerly  through  North 
Broadway  to  Roger  Williams  avenue,  thence  through  Roger 
Williams  avenue  to  Wilson  avenue,  thence  through  Wilson 
avenue  to  Pawtucket  avenue,  and  thence  through  Pawtucket 
avenue  to  the  boundary  between  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence and  the  city  of  Pawtucket,  shall  be  designated  the 
Phillipsdale  District. 

6.  All  that  part  of  the  town  north  of  a line  beginning  at 
the  junction  of  North  Broadway  and  Roger  Williams  ave- 
nue, running  thence  through  North  Broadway  a distance  of 


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1725  feet,  thence  due  east  to  the  state  line  and  east  of  a line 
beginning  at  the  junction  of  North  Broadway  and  Roger 
Williams  avenue,  thence  extending  through  Roger  Williams 
avenue  to  Wilson  avenue,  thence  through  Wilson  avenue  to 
Pawtucket  avenue,  thence  through  Pawtucket  avenue  to  the 
boundary  line  between  the  town  of  East  Providence  and  the 
city  of  Pawtucket,  shall  be  designated  the  Rumford  District. 

7.  And  all  the  remainder  of  the  town,  not  included  in  the 
foregoing  districts,  bounded  southerly  by  the  Engine  and 
Hose  Company  No.  4 District,  westerly  by  the  Phillipsdale 
District  and  northerly  and  westerly  by  the  Rumford  Dis- 
trict, shall  be  desfgnated  the  Centre  District. 

Sec.  2.  The  fire  department  of  the  town  shall  consist 
of  the  several  fire  companies  now  organized,  to  wit : Engine 
and  Hose  Company  No.  4,  Narragansett  Engine  Company, 
Rumford  Volunteer  Fire  Company,  Pomham  Hose  Company, 
Centre  Volunteer  Fire  Company,  Bay  View  Fire  Company 
and  Phillipsdale  Volunteer  Fire  Company. 

SEC.  3.  Each  of  said  fire  companies,  through  its  foreman 
or  officer  in  command,  shall  have  absolute  control  at  all  fires 
occuring  within  the  limits  of  the  district  designated  after 
the  name  of  said  company,  and  all  companies  and  apparatus 
coming  into  the  said  district  to  assist  in  the  extinguishment 
of  fires  shall  report  to  the  said  foreman  or  the  officer  in  com- 
mand for  service,  except  as  may  be  otherwise  provided  by 
the  rules  and  regulations  now  established  or  which  may  here- 
after be  established  by  the  town  council  for  the  government 
of  the  fire  department  of  the  town. 

Sec.  4.  Nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  so  as 
to  prevent  any  fire  company  from  rendering  services  at  a fire 
occurring  without  the  limits  of  its  district,  but  each  company 
shall  respond  to  every  alarm  of  a fire  occurring  within  a 
reasonable  distance  from  the  place  where  its  apparatus  is 
kept  or  where  there  is  a probability  that  its  services  may  be 
required , and,  in  such  a case,  if  it  should  be  the  first  com- 
pany to  arfive  at  the  scene  of  a fire  without  its  district,  it 
shall  proceed  as  if  the  fire  were  within  its  own  district,  until 


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the  arrival  of  the  company  from  the  district,  when  it  shall 
immediately  place  itself  and  its  apparatus  under  the  com- 
mand of  the  company  in  whose  district  the  fire  is,  except  as 
may  be  otherwise  provided  by  the  rules  and  regulations  now 
established  or  which  may  hereafter  be  established  by  the 
town  council  for  the  government  of  the  fire  department. 

Where  the  assistance  of  any  company  is  specially  re- 
quested, even  though  the  fire  occurs  at  a considerable  dis- 
tance from  the  place  where  its  apparatus  is  kept,  it  shall  at 
once  respond. 

SEC.  5.  Each  fire  company,  through  its  clerk,  shall  an- 
nually, on  the  first  secular  day  of  October,  report  to  the  town 
council  the  state  of  its  apparatus  and  its  needs,  and  shall  in 
said  report  give  a list  of  the  fires  occurring  within  its  dis- 
trict during  the  twelve  months  preceding,  and  such  statistics 
in  relation  to  losses,  insurance  and  the  causes  of  fires  as  it 
may  be  able  to  procure,  and  make  such  suggestions  in  rela- 
tion to  the  operation  and  improvement  of  the  fire  department 
as  it  may  deem  advisable,  except  as  may  be  otherwise  pro- 
vided by  the  rules  and  regulations  now  established  or  which 
may  hereafter  be  established  by  the  town  council  for  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  fire  department  of  the  town. 


CHAPTER  23. 

CONCERNING  LICENSES  OF  HAWKERS,  PEDDLERS  AND 
DEALERS  IN  CERTAIN  WARES  AND  MERCHANDISE. 


Section. 

1.  License  required. 

2.  Fees  for  licenses. 

3.  What  licenses  chief  of  po- 

lice may  approve. 

4.  Badge  required. 

5.  Badge  not  to  be  worn  after 

expiration  of  license  and 
forfeiture  of  same. 

6.  Only  one  person  authorized 

to  act  under  a license. 


Section. 

7.  Showing  of  license  and 

badge  to  police  officer  up- 
on demand. 

8.  Penalty. 

9.  Exceptions  as  to  certain 

trades. 

10.  Exceptions  as  to  milkmen, 
farmers,  icemen  or  news- 
paper men. 


Section  1.  Except  as  hereinafter  provided,  on*atid  after 
the  first  day  of  December,  A.  D.,  1903,  all  hawkers  and 


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peddlers  desiring  to  sell  or  offer  for  sale  as  hawkers  and 
peddlers  any  articles  or  substances  within  the  town  of  East 
Providence,  and  all  persons  desiring  to  sell  or  to  offer  for 
sale  any  goods,  wares,  merchandise,  ice  cream,  fruits,  vege- 
tables or  other  articles  or  substances,  on  any  street  in  said 
town,  shall  first  obtain  a town  license  therefor,  to  be  issued 
by  the  town  clerk  of  said  town,  and  to  that  end  shall  make 
application  to  the  town  council  of  said  town  for  such  license 
therefor  respectively  as  may  be  desired,  and  said  town  clerk, 
after  the  granting  of  said  application  by  said  town  council, 
may  issue  a license  accordingly  to  such  persons  respectively 
to  sell  the  articles  and  substances  hereinbefore  men- 
tioned in  such  manner  as  shall  be  specified  in  such  license, 
upon  any  street  in  said  town,  or  to  hawkers  and  peddlers  au- 
thorizing them  to  sell  or  to  offer  for  sale  as  hawkers  and 
peddlers  any  articles  and  substances  within  said  town  for  the 
period  from  the  date  of  such  license  until  the  first  day  of  De- 
cember next  ensuing  such  date. 

Sec.  2.  For  licenses  so  issued  as  aforesaid  the  persons  re- 
ceiving the  same  shall  pay  to  the  town  clerk  the  following 
fees  which  are  hereby  established,  respectively,  to  wit : 

For  peddlers  from  wagons  or  carts,  five  dollars. 

For  peddlers  from  hand  or  push  cart,  five  dollars. 

For  peddlers  on  foot,  without  wagon  or  cart,  five  dollars. 

For  peddling  patent  medicine,  twenty-five  dollars. 

For  peddling  watches,  jewelry,  gold  or  silver  ware  or  articles 

manufactured  of  German  silver,  twenty-five  dollars. 

Sec.  3.  In  addition  to  the  foregoing  licenses,  expiring  as 
afore  provided,  the  town  clerk,  on  the  approval  of  the  chief 
of  police  of  said  town,  may  issue  licenses  for  one  or  more 
days  for  one  dollar  per  day. 

Sec.  4.  Every  person  licensed  under  this  ordinance  shall 
also  obtain  from  the  town  clerk  a badge  of  white  metal  at 
least  two  inches  in  diameter,  and  shall  at  all  times  while  en- 
gaged in  the  business  for  which  he  is  licensed  wear  said 
badge  conspicuously  on  the  outside  of  his  outside  coat.  Such 
badge  shall  bear  in  black  enamel  a number  which  shall  cor- 


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respond  to  the  badge  number  marked  on  the  license,  and  shall 
be  issued  upon  the  deposit  of  fifty  cents  to  such  person  as 
shall  obtain  the  license  bearing  such  badge  number,  and  upon 
the  surrender  of  such  badge  to  the  town  clerk  said  deposit 
shall  be  returned  and  the  license  shall  thereby  be  revoked. 

Sec.  5.  No  person  shall  wear  any  such  badge  after  the 
expiration  or  revocation  of  the  license  represented  by  it,  and 
any  licensed  person,  who  shall  suffer  any  badge,  issued  to 
him  as  aforesaid,  to  be  used  by  another  person  for  a purpose 
similar  to  that  for  which  the  badge  was  issued  to  him,  shall 
forfeit  said  badge,  together  with  the  license  represented  by  it. 

Sec.  6.  No  license  shall  authorize  any  person  other  than 
the  one  named  therein  to  act  thereunder,  and  no  license  shall 
be  transferable,  excepting  that  any  such  license  may  be  trans- 
ferred by  the  town  clerk,  upon  the  approval  of  the  town 
council,  on  the  payment  of  a fee  of  one  dollar. 

Sec.  7.  Any  person  who  shall  neglect  or  refuse  for  the 
space  of  ten  minutes,  after  demand  by  any  police  constable, 
to  exhibit  to  him  his  license  and  badge,  shall  be  deemed,  for 
the  purpose  of  this  ordinance,  to  be  unlicensed,  and  to  have 
violated  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  8.  Every  person  who  sells  or  offers  for  sale  any 
articles  or  substances  as  a hawker  or  peddler  in  the  town  of 
East  Providence,  and  every  person  who  sells  or  offers  for 
sale  any  goods,  wares,  merchandise,  fruit,  vegetables  or  other 
articles  or  substances  on  any  street  in  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence without  a town  license  as  herein  provided,  and  every 
person  who  violates  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance, 
shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars. 

SEC.  9.  No  fees  shall  be  charged  for  licenses  issued  to  any 
person  selling  religious  books  and  publications  in  behalf  of 
Bible,  tract  or  other  religious  or  moral  societies  for  the  pur- 
pose of  promoting  religious  or  moral  improvement,  and 
which  are  sold  for  that  purpose  and  not  for  pecuniary  profit ; 
or  to  butchers  retailing  meats,  or  to  fishermen  selling  fish  or 
shell  fish  from  carts  or  otherwise,  or  to  any  person  peddling 
or  selling  any  tow  cloth,  knit  stockings,  gloves,  mits  or  other 


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articles  of  household  manufacture,  or  articles  manufactured 
with  his  own  hands,  or  to  any  person  who  shall  receive  a 
license  from  the  general  treasurer  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  Section  15  of  Chapter  162  of  the  General  Laws,  as 
amended  by  Chapter  622  of  the  Public  Laws,  passed  at  the 
January  session,  A.  D.,  1899,  and  Chapter  1060  of  the  Public 
Laws,  passed  at  the  December  session,  A.  D.,  1902. 

Sec.  10.  Nothing  in  this  ordinance  contained  shall  apply 
to  any  •milkman  or  to  any  farmer  selling  the  produce  of  his 
farm  or  selling  both  the  produce  of  his  farm  and  the  produce 
of  other  farms,  or  to  any  vendor  of  ice  or  newspapers. 


CHAPTER  24. 

AN  ORDINANCE  CONCERNING  DEALERS  IN  JUNK,  OLD 
METALS  AND  OTHER  SECOND-HAND  ARTICLES. 


Section. 

1.  License  required. 

2.  Fee  for  licenses. 

3.  Business  not  to  be  carried 

on  in  dwelling  house  with- 
out consent  of  chief  of 
police. 

4.  Keeper  of  shop  or  store 

house  to  keep  book  con- 
taining record  of  business 
done. 

5.  Record  book  subject  to  in- 

spection of  whom. 

6.  Must  keep  purchased  arti- 

cles ten  days. 

7.  Copy  of  record  to  be  de- 

livered to  chief  of  police. 

8.  Exceptions  to  junk  weighing 

one  ton  or  more. 

9.  No  business  to  be  done  be- 

tween 7 P.  M.  and  7 A.  M. 


Section. 

10.  License  to  be  displayed  in 

shop. 

11.  Badge  required. 

12.  Badge  not  to  be  worn  after 

expiration  or  revocation  of 
license. 

13. ;Not  to  purchase  from  minor, 

except  when. 

14.  What  must  be  set  forth  in 

application  for  license;  all 
applicantions  to  be  re- 
ferred to  chief  of  police 
before  being  acted  upon. 

15.  Transfer  of  licenses. 

16.  When  licenses  expire. 

17.  Penalty. 

18.  Exceptions. 

19.  Application  to  keep  shop  or 

warehouse  must  be  con- 
tinued and  advertised. 


Section  1.  No  person  shall  engage  in  the  business  of  pur- 
chasing, selling,  bartering  and  dealing  in  junk,  old  metals  and 
any  other  second-hand  articles,  whether  as  keeper  of  a shop 
or  storehouse  for  the  reception  of  the  same  or  as  a gatherer 
of  the  same  in  any  bag,  wagon  or  cart,  within  the  town  of 
East  Providence,  unless  such  person  shall  first  obtain  a li- 
cense therefor,  to  be  issued  by  the  town  clerk  of  said  town, 


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and  to  that  end  shall  make  application  to  the  town  council 
of  said  town  for  such  license  therefor,  respectively,  as  may 
be  desired ; and  said  town  clerk,  after  the  granting  of  said  ap- 
plication by  said  town  council,  may  issue  a license  to  such 
person  in  accordance  with  the  request  in  his  application  con- 
tained and  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance. 

Sec.  2.  For  licenses  so  issued  as  aforesaid  the  persons  re- 
ceiving the  same  shall  pay  to  the  town  clerk  the  following 
fees,  which  are  hereby  established,  respectively,  to  wit' 

For  a keeper  of  a shop  or  storehouse  for  the  reception  of 
junk,  old  metals  and  other  second-hand  articles,  twenty-five 
dollars. 

For  a gatherer  of  junk,  old  metals  and  other  second-hand 
articles  in  any  bag,  wagon  or  cart,  five  dollars. 

Sec.  3.  No  such  business  shall  be  carried  on  in  any  build- 
ing or  premises  of  which  any  part  is  used  as  a dwelling  house, 
except  with  the  written  consent  of  the  chief  of  police. 

Sec.  4.  Every  such  person  licensed  as  keeper  of  a shop  or 
storehouse  for  the  reception  of  junk,  old  metals  and  other 
second-hand  articles  shall  keep  in  a book  obtained  from,  or 
under  the  direction  of,  the  town  clerk,  a contemporaneous  re- 
cord, in  ink  and  in  the  English  language,  of  the  business  done 
by  him,  as  follows  : 

A description  of  every  article  purchased  or  sold  by  him,  at 
the  time  of  such  purchase  or  sale ; the  name  and  residence  of 
the  person  from  whom  the  same  was  purchased  or  to  whom 
the  same  was  sold,  and  the  day  and  hour  of  such  purchase 
or  sale. 

Sec.  5.  Said  book  of  record,  and  every  shop,  storehouse, 
bag  or  wagon,  cart  and  place  of  business  of  any  such  li- 
censed person  shall  be  subject  to  the  inspection  of  the  chief 
of  police,  any  sergeant  of  police,  and  any  person  authorized 
by  any  of  them. 

Sec.  6.  Every  person  licensed  under  this  ordinance  shall 
keep  any  property  purchased  or  received  by  him  for  a period 
of  ten  days  after  the  report  required  to  be  made  by  him  to 
the  chief  of  police,  as  hereinafter  provided,  if  such  person  is 


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a keeper  of  a shop  or  storehouse  for  the  reception  of  jmik, 
old  metals  and  other  second-hand  articles ; and  for  a period 
of  ten  days’  after  the  purchase  and  reception  of  the  same  if 
such  person  is  a gatherer ; and  during  said  period  such  prop- 
erty shall  be  kept  separate  and  distinct  and  shall  not  he  dis- 
figured or  treated  in  any  way  by  which  its  identity  may  he 
destroyed  or  afifected ; except,  however,  that  any  person  li- 
censed as  a gatherer  may  at  any  time  sell  any  such  property 
to  a keeper  of  a shop  or  storehouse,  licensed  as  above  pro- 
vided ; and  except  that  any  licensed  keeper  of  a shop  or  store- 
house may  sell  such  property  within  said  period  of  ten  days 
upon  obtaining  a written  permission  to  do  so  from  the  chief 
of  police  or  from  such  person  as  he  shall  designate  to  act  for 
him. 

Sec.  7.  Every  licensed  keeper  of  a shop  or  storehouse  for 
the  reception  of  junk,  old  metals  and  other  second-hand 
articles  shall  every  day,  except  Sunday,  between  the  hours  of 
seven  and  eleven  o’clock  before  noon,  deliver  to  the  chief  of 
police,  or  at  his  office,  on  blank  forms  to  be  prescribed  by 
said  chief,  a legible  and  correct  transcript  from  the  book 
kept  by  said  licensed  person,  as  hereinbefore  provided,  show- 
ing the  business  done  by  such  person  during  the  business  day 
next  preceding. 

SEC.  8.  The  provisions  of  sections  4,  5,  6 and  7 shall  not 
apply  to  any  purchase  or  sale  of  junk  or  old  metals  weighing 
one  ton  or  over. 

Sec.  9.  No  keeper  of  any  junk  shop  or  storehouse  shall 
do,  or  suffer  to  be  done,  any  business  therein  between  the 
hours  of  seven  o’clock  after  noon  and  seven  o’clock  before 
noon. 

Sec.  10.  Every  keeper  of  any  junk  shop  or  storehouse, 
licensed  as  aforesaid,  shall  display  in  a conspicuous  place 
within  such  shop  or  storehouse  the  license  last  granted  to  him. 

SEC.  1 1 . Every  gatherer  of  junk,  old  metals  and  other  sec- 
ond-hand articles,  at  the  time  of  taking  out  his  license,  shall 
obtain  from  the  town  clerk  a badge  of  white  metal  at  least 
two  inches  in  diameter,  and  shall  at  all  times,  while  engaged 


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in  the  business  for  which  he  is  licensed,  wear  said  badge  con- 
spicuously on  the  outside  of  his  outside  coat.  Such  badge 
shall  bear  in  black  enamel  a number  which  shall  correspond 
to  the  badge  number  marked  on  the  license,  and  shall  be  is- 
sued upon  the  deposit  of  fifty  cents  to  such  person  as  shall 
obtain  the  license  bearing  such  a badge  number,  and  upon  the 
surrender  of  such  badge  to  the  town  clerk  said  deposit  shall 
be  returned  and  the  license  shall  thereby  be  revoked. 

SEC.  12.  No  person  shall  wear  any  such  badge  after  the 
expiration  or  revocation  of  the  license  represented  by  it,  and 
any  licensed  person  who  shall  suffer  any  badge,  issued  to  him 
as  aforesaid,  to  be  used  by  another  person  for  a purpose  simi- 
lar to  that  for  which  the  badge  was  issued  to  him  shall  forfeit 
said  badge,  together  with  the  license  represented  by  it. 

Sec.  13.  No  person,  licensed  as  herein  provided,  shall,  di- 
rectly or  indirectly,  either  purchase  or  receive  in  barter  or  ex- 
change any  junk,  old  metals  or  other  second-hand  articles 
from  any  minor,  unless  such  minor  shall  be  licensed  in  ac- 
cordance with  this  ordinance ; nor  shall  any  such  licensed 
person,  directly  or  indirectly,  either  purchase  or  receive  in 
barter  or  exchange,  or  sell  any  bar  or  pig  iron. 

Sec.  14.  Every  applicant  for  a license  under  this  ordi- 
nance shall  set  forth,  with  full  particulars,  upon  a form  to  be 
furnished  by  the  town  clerk,  answers  to  the  following  ques- 
tions, to  wit : 

First — Name  and  address,  both  of  residence  and  place  of 
business  of  the  applicant. 

Second — Nationality  of  the  applicant. 

Third — Business  employment  of  the  applicant  during  the 
five  years  next  preceding  his  application. 

Fourth — Age  of  the  applicant. 

Fifth — Whether  the  license  is  for  the  keeper  of  a shop  or 
storehouse,  or  for  a gatherer  in  any  bag,  cart  or  wagon. 

Sixth — Whether  or  not  the  applicant  holds  any  license  is- 
sued by  any  other  city  or  town,  and  if  so  for  what  the  license 
has  been  granted,  the  number  thereof,  and  the  license  number 


TOWN  OF  FAST  PROVIDENCE. 


of  the  applicant’s  wagon  or  cart,  if  any  he  has,  and  by  what 
city  or  town  said  license  has  been  granted. 

The  said  questions,  and  the  answers  thereto,  shall  be  at- 
tached to  and  form  a part  of  the  application  for  license.  All 
such  applications  shall  be  referred  to  the  chief  of  police  for 
his  approval  or  disapproval  before  being  finally  acted  upon  by 
the  town  council. 

SEC.  15.  Any  license  granted  under  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance  may  be  transferred  by  the  town  clerk,  upon  the  ap- 
proval of  the  town  council  first  had  and  obtained,  upon  the 
payment  of  a fee  of  one  dollar. 

Sec.  16.  All  licenses  granted  under  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance  shall  expire  on  the  first  day  of  December  next  suc- 
ceeding the  date  of  such  license,  and  no  rebate  shall  be  made 
from  the  license  fee  for  such  license  for  any  licensed  term 
less  than  one  year. 

Sec.  17.  Every  person  who  engages  in  the  business  of 
buying  or  selling  or  bartering  or  dealing  in  junk,  old  metals 
or  other  second-hand  articles  within  the  limits  of  the  town  of 
East  Providence  without  license  granted  as  hereinbefore  pro- 
vided, or  who  violates  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance, 
shall  pay  a fine  of  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  18.  This  ordinance  shall  not  apply  to  keepers  of 
shops  for  the  purchase,  sale  or  barter  of  books,  pamphlets, 
periodicals  or  household  furniture. 

Sec.  19.  Every  application  for  a license  to  keep  a shop  or 
storehouse  for  the  reception  of  any  junk,  old  metals  or  other 
second-hand  articles  shall  be  continued  by  the  town  council 
to  some  meeting  subsequent  to  that  at  which  such  application 
is  received,  and  notice  of  the  pendency  of  such  application, 
and  of  the  time  and  place  when  and  where  such  application 
will  be  considered,  shall  be  given  by  advertisement  in  some 
public  newspaper  published  in  the  county  of  Providence,  in 
order  that  any  person  or  persons  interested  in  the  said  appli- 
cation may  appear  before  the  town  council  and  be  heard  in 
favor  of  or  in  opposition  to  the  granting  of  the  license  to  the 
applicant. 


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CHAPTER  25. 

WIRES  FOR  CONDUCTING  ELECTRICITY. 


Section. 

1.  Wires  not  to  be  placed  in 

any  street,  without  per- 
mission of  town  council. 

2.  Wires  to  be  suspended  from 

such  supports  as  shall  be 
approved  by  town  council 

3.  Wires  placed  below  surface 

of  ground  shall  be  laid  as 
town  council  may  ap- 
prove. 

4.  Persons  erecting  poles  shall 

permit  others  to  use  them 
when  town  council  so  di- 
rects. 


Section. 

5.  Poles  shall  be  erected  at 

such  points  as  town  coun- 
cil may  indicate. 

6.  Poles  shall  not  be  used  for 

light,  heat,  or  motive 
power  by  electricity. 

7.  Permission  given  by  town 

council  to  maintain  such 
wires  may  be  revoked. 

8.  Persons  erecting  poles  shall 

indemnify  town  of  East 
Providence. 

9.  Applications  to  erect  poles 

shall  designate  streets. 


The  following  regulations  are  hereby  established  for  the 
running  of  wires  in  the  town  of  East  Providence,  to  be  used 
for  the  purpose  of  conducting  currents  of  electricity  for  tele- 
graphic and  telephonic  uses. 

Section  1.  No  such  wires  shall  be  placed  or  maintained 
in,  over  or  under  any  street,  square,  lane,  alley  or  highway  in 
the  town  of  East  Providence,  without  the  permission  of  the 
town  council,  nor  until  the  person  or  corporation  placing  or 
maintaining  the  same  shall  have  filed  with  the  town  clerk  a 
written  agreement,  accepting  and  promising  to  abide  by,  and 
perform  all  the  conditions  and  provisions  of  this  ordinance, 
and  of  all  ordinances  or  orders  in  amendment  of,  or  in  addi- 
tion thereto,  that  may  be  hereafter  enacted. 

Sec.  2.  All  such  wires,  when  placed  above  the  surface  of 
the  ground,  shall  be  suspended  from  such  supports  and  at- 
tachments as  may  be  approved  by  the  town  council,  or  the 
highway  surveyor  of  either  district,  acting  under  their  in- 
structions; and  such  supports  and  attachments  shall  at  all 
times  be  provided  and  maintained  at  the  cost  of  the  person  or 
corporation  using  such  wires. 

Sec.  3.  All  such  wires,  when  placed  below  the  surface  of 
the  ground,  shall  be  laid  and  maintained  in  such  manner 
and  place  as  the  town  council,  or  any  person  or  persons  by 
them  authorized,  may  approve,  at  the  cost  of  the  person  or 
corporation  using  such  wires. 


TOWN  OF  FAST  PROVIDENCE. 


SEC.  4.  Any  person  or  corporation  erecting  any  poles  to 
support  such  wires,  shall  permit  such  poles  to  be  used  for 
other  wires  and  attachments  thereof,  than  his  or  its  own, 
whenever  the  town  council  shall  so  direct,  and  upon  such 
terms  as  the  town  council  may  impose,  after  reasonable  notice 
has  been  given  by  the  town  council  to  such  person  or  corpora- 
tion. 

Sec.  5.  Poles  shall  be  erected  at  such  points  as  the  town 
council  or  the  highway  surveyor  of  either  district,  acting 
under  their  instructions,  may  indicate,  and  not  elsewhere. 
The  location  of  any  and  all  poles  shall  be  changed  at  the  ex- 
pense of  the  person  or  corporation  using  the  wires  thereon, 
and  by  such  person  or  corporation  whenever  and  as  the  town 
council  may  direct.  And  any  and  all  poles  may,  in  case  of 
public  necessity,  be  removed  at  any  time  without  notice,  by 
the  town  of  East  Providence  or  its  officers,  agents,  or  ser- 
vants acting  in  the  performance  of  their  duty,  without  any 
claim  for  damage  therefor  on  the  part  of  any  person  or  cor- 
poration owning  or  using  such  poles. 

SEC.  6.  Said  poles  shall  not  be  used  for  the  support  of, 
nor  shall  said  wires  be  placed  in  contact  with,  any  wires  used 
to  conduct  currents  of  electricity  for  the  transmission  or  pro- 
duction of  light,  heat  or  motive  power. 

Sec.  7.  Permission  given  by  the  town  council  to  erect  or 
maintain  such  poles  and  wires  may  be  revoked  in  whole  or  in 
part  at  any  time  after  thirty  days  notice,  and  opportunity  to 
be  heard  shall  have  been  given  to  the  parties  interested,  and 
any  of  such  wires  may  in  case  of  public  necessity  be  cut  and 
removed  at  any  time  without  notice,  by  the  town  of  East 
Providence  or  its  officers,  agents  or  servants  acting  in  the 
performance  of  their  duty  without  any  claim  for  damages 
therefor,  on  the  part  of  any  person  or  corporation  owning  or 
using  such  wires. 

SEC.  8.  Every  person  or  corporation  erecting,  maintaining, 
or  using  such  poles  or  wires,  shall  indemnify  and  save  harm- 
less the  town  of  East  Providence,  its  officers,  agents  and 
servants,  from  and  against  all  lawful  claims  and  demands 


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for  injuries  to  persons  or  property  occasioned  by  the  erec- 
tion and  existence  of  such  poles  or  wires,  or  the  transmission 
of  electric  currents  by  means  thereof,  and  the  said  town, 
town  council,  or  the  agents  or  servants  of  said  town,  exer- 
cising the  rights,  powers  and  permission,  and  subject  to  the 
restrictions  respectively  given  and  reserved  herein,  shall  not 
be  held  liable  by  such  person  or  corporation  on  account  there- 
of, or  by  reason  of  any  injury  or  damage  caused  thereby. 

Sec.  9.  All  applications  for  permission  to  erect  or  main- 
tain such  poles  or  wires,  shall  designate  the  streets,  squares, 
lanes,  alleys  or  highways  in,  over  or  under  which  it  is  pro- 
posed to  locate  the  same. 


CHAPTER  26. 

WIRES  FOR  ELECTRIC  LIGHT,  HEAT  AND  POWER- 


Section. 

1.  Wires  for  light,  heat  and 

power. 

2.  No  wires  to  be  placed  with- 

out permission  of  town 
council. 

3.  How  wires  shall  be  placed 

above  ground. 

4.  Height  of  poles  and  wires 

above  ground. 

5.  How  wires  shall  be  attached 

to  buildings. 

6.  Plat  of  location  of  poles  and 

wires  to  be  filed  in  town 
clerk’s  office. 

7.  Wires  to  be  insulated  and 

daily  tests  made. 


Section. 

8.  Construction  and  mainte- 

nance to  be  under  direc- 
tion of  town  council. 

9.  Changes  may  be  made  by 

town  council. 

10.  Town  to  be  exempt  from 

liability. 

11.  Written  application  required 

for  construction. 

12.  Poles  to  be  marked  to  satis- 

faction of  town  council. 

13.  Precaution  to  prevent  dam- 

age. 

14.  Penalty. 


Section  1.  The  following  regulations  are  hereby  estab- 
lished for  the  running  of  wires  in  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence, to  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  conducting  currents  of 
electricity  for  the  transmission  or  production  of  light,  heat, 
or  motive  power. 

Sec.  2.  No  such  wire  shall  be  placed  or  maintained  in, 
over  or  under  any  street,  square,  lane,  alley  or  highway  in 
said  town  without  permission  of  the  town  council,  nor  until 
the  person  or  corporation  placing  or  maintaining  the  same 
shall  have  filed  with  the  town  clerk  a written  agreement  ac- 
cepting and  promising  to  abide  by  and  perform  all  the  condi- 


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tions  and  provisions  of  this  chapter  and  of  all  ordinances  or 
orders  in  amendment  of  or  in  addition  hereto  that  may  be 
hereafter  enacted. 

Sec.  3.  All  such  wires  when  placed  above  the  surface  of 
the  ground,  shall  be  suspended  from  poles,  which  shall  be 
provided  and  maintained  by  the  person  or  corporation,  using 
such  wires,  and  such  person  or  corporation  shall  permit  any 
other  person  or  corporation  to  suspend  from  such  poles 
wires  for  conducting  electric  currents  for  lighting,  heating  or 
motive  power,  and  also  to  place  lamps,  on  any  poles  or  lamp 
posts  not  in  use  for  that  purpose,  whenever  the  town  council 
shall  so  direct,  and  upon  such  reasonable  conditions,  terms 
and  remuneration  as  the  town  council  may  approve  or  pre- 
scribe ; said  poles  shall  not  be  used  for  the  support  of,  nor 
shall  said  wires  be  placed  in  contact  with,  any  telephonic, 
telegraphic  or  other  wires,  and  such  poles  shall  be  so  placed 
that  the  wires  shall  cross  streets  only  at  right  angles. 

Sec.  4.  The  poles  shall  not  exceed  thirty  feet  in  height 
from  the  ground,  and  the  lowest  line  of  wire  thereon  shall 
be  suspended  not  less  than  twenty  feet  from  the  ground. 

Sec.  5.  No  such  wire  shall  be  suspended  from  or  attached 
to  any  building,  except  for  the  purpose  of  conducting  elec- 
tricity thereto,  unless  by  special  permission  of  said  town 
council,  or  of  some  person  by  them  delegated  for  that  pur- 
pose, and  in  accordance  with  their  or  his  directions,  and  in 
no  case  shall  such  wire  be  placed  on  any  building  in  prox- 
imity to  any  other  wire. 

Sec.  6.  Upon  the  completion  of  any  circuit,  and  before  the 
same  shall  be  used,  a plat,  showing  the  location  of  all  poles 
and  wires  in  such  circuit,  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the 
town  clerk,  and  any  change  of  poles  or  wires  shall  be  re- 

1 ported  at  said  office  in  writing  within  twenty-four  hours  after 
such  change  shall  be  made. 

SEC.  7.  The  machine  generating  the  electric  current  shall 
1 be  insulated  from  electrical  communication  with  the  earth, 
! and  the  wires  shall  be  covered  with  proper  insulating  ma- 
, terial  throughout  their  entire  length,  and  shall  have  no 


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ground  connections,  the  direct  and  return  current  being  taken 
over  metallic  conductors,  and  the  attachments  of  all  wires 
shall  be  made  of  non-combustible,  non-conducting  material. 
Daily  tests  shall  be  made  of  each  circuit  operated,  to  detect 
defects  and  accidental  ground  connections,  and  reports  of 
such  tests  shall  be  made  to  the  town  clerk,  or  some  person 
delegated  by  said  town  council,  daily. 

Sec.  8.  The  location,  height,  arrangement,  construction 
and  attachments  of  all  poles  and  wires  shall  be  under  the  di- 
rection of  said  town  council,  or  of  some  person  by  them  dele- 
gated, who  may,  at  any  time,  and  from  time  to  time,  in  their 
or  his  discretion,  direct  changes  to  be  made  therein,  as  the 
public  safety  may  require. 

Sec.  9.  Permission  given  by  the  town  council  to  erect  or 
maintain  such  poles  and  wires  may  be  revoked  in  whole  or  in 
part  at  any  time,  and  any  of  such  poles  or  wires  may  be  re- 
moved by  said  town,  its  officers,  agents  or  servants,  from 
time  to  time,  or  at  any  time,  without  notice. 

SEC.  10.  Every  person  or  corporation  erecting,  maintain- 
ing or  using  such  poles  or  wires  shall  indemnify  and  save 
harmless  the  town  of  East  Providence,  its  officers,  agents 
and  servants,  from  and  against  all  lawful  claims  and  de- 
mands for  injuries  to  persons  or  property  occasioned  by  the 
existence  of  such  poles  or  wires,  or  the  transmission  of  elec- 
tric currents  by  means  thereof,  and  the  said  town,  town  coun- 
cil, or  agents  or  servants  of  said  town  exercising  the  rights, 
powers  and  permission,  and  subject  to  the  restrictions  re- 
spectively given  and  reserved  herein,  shall  not  be  held  liable 
by  such  person  or  corporation  on  account  thereof,  or  by 
reason  of  any  injury  or  damage  caused  thereby. 

Sec.  11.  No  permission  to  erect  or  maintain  such  poles  or 
wires  shall  be  granted  except  on  written  application  to  the 
town  council,  and  every  such  application  and  every  permis- 
sion given  shall  designate  the  streets,  squares,  lanes  or  alleys 
over  and  in  or  under  which  it  is  proposed  to  locate  the  same ; 
and  before  action  thereon  by  the  town  council  they  shall  give 
a public  hearing  thereon. 


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Sec.  12.  All  poles  used  for  carrying  wires  for  conducting 
electricity  for  light,  heat  or  motive  power  shall  be  branded  or 
otherwise  marked  in  a legible  and  permanent  manner  to  the 
satisfaction  of  said  town  council,  or  of  some  person  by  them 
delegated,  with  the  name  or  title  of  the  person  or  corporation 
owning  the  same,  and  at  his  or  its  expense;  and  in  all  cases 
where  wires  of  more  than  one  person  or  corporation  are 
placed  upon  any  one  pole,  that  part  of  the  pole  or  cross-arm 
to  which  such  wires  are  attached  shall  be  marked  in  such 
manner  as  to  designate  the  ownership  of  such  wires,  and  in 
such  way  as  shall  be  satisfactory  to  said  town  council  or 
person  delegated  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  13.  In  all  lighting,  power  and  high  tension  circuits, 
lines  or  wires,  every  person  or  corporation  owning  or  using 
such  lines  or  wires  shall  take  all  proper  means  and  precau- 
tions to  prevent  the  currents  of  electricity  from  said  lines  or 
wires,  through  leakage  or  otherwise,  from  injuring  or  dam- 
aging the  water  mains  or  pipes,  or  other  pipes,  now  or  here- 
after laid  in  said  town. 

Sec.  14.  Every  line,  pole,  fixture,  structure,  electrical  ap- 
pliance, etc.,  must  be  kept  in  thorough  order  and  repair,  and 
in  conformity  with  the  ordinances,  and  any  persons  or  cor- 
porations violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  said  ordinance 
shall  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  twenty 
dollars  for  each  and  every  violation. 


CHAPTER  27. 

SHEEP,  GOATS,  CATTLE,  HORSES,  SWINE  AND  FOWLS. 

Section. 

1.  Persons  having  charge  of  animals  not  to  allow  them  to 
enter  land  belonging  to  another,  after  being  forbidden; 
fine. 


Section  1.  Whoever  having  charge  or  custody  of  sheep, 
goats,  cattle,  horses,  swine  or  fowls,  wilfully  suffers  or  per- 
mits them  to  enter  or  pass  over  or  remain  on  any  orchard, 
garden,  mowing  land,  or  other  improved  or  enclosed  land  of 


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another,  after  being  forbidden  in  writing,  or  by  notice  posted 
thereon  by  the  owner  or  occupant  thereof,  or  by  the  au- 
thorized agent  of  such  owner  or  occupant,  shall  be  fined  not 
less  than  two  dollars  nor  more  than  ten  dollars. 


CHAPTER  28. 

CONTAGIOUS  DISEASES. 


Section. 

1.  Physician  to  report  immed- 

iately. 

2.  Diseases  to  be  reported. 

3.  Penalty  for  physician  fail- 

ing to  report. 

4.  Notice  to  be  given  to  health 

officer. 

5.  Procedure  in  case  of  small- 

pox. 

6.  Procedure  in  case  of  scarlet. 

fever. 

7.  Procedure  in  case  of  diph- 

theria. 


Section. 

8.  Health  officer  may  take  fur- 

ther precautions. 

9.  Not  to  attend  school  with- 

out certificate  of  health 
officer. 

10.  Certificates  to  be  required 

by  teachers. 

11.  Rules  for  funerals. 

12.  Penalty. 

13.  Penalty. 


Section  1 . Every  physician  having  knowledge  of  the 
existence  of  any  cases  of  contagious,  infectious  or  epidemic 
disease  within  the  town  of  East  Providence,  shall  immedi- 
ately make  report  thereof  to  the  health  officer  of  said  town, 
with  such  particulars  as  said  health  officer  may  indicate,  on 
blanks  furnished  for  that  purpose. 

Sec.  2.  The  diseases  referred  to  in  the  preceding  section 
shall  include  cholera,  yellow  fever,  typhus  fever,  typhoid 
fever,  cerebro  spinal  meningitis,  diphtheria,  smallpox,  scarlet 
fever,  measles,  intermittent  fever,  anterior  poliomyelitis, 
commonly  called  infantile  paralysis,  and  such  other  contag- 
ious, infectious  and  epidemic  diseases  as  the  health  officer 
may  from  time  to  time  designate. 

SEC.  3.  Any  physician  who  shall  fail  to  comply  with  the 
provisions  of  the  preceding  sections,  shall  be  fined  not  less 
than  two  dollars,  nor  more  than  ten  dollars,  for  each  day  of 
such  neglect,  after  having  knowledge  thereof  as  aforesaid. 

SEC.  4.  Every  physician,  householder,  or  other  person , 
having  knowledge  of  the  existence  of  scarlet  fever,  diph- 


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theria,  or  other  contagious  disease  in  any  house  or  place  in 
said  town,  shall  forthwith  give  notice  of  the  same  to  the 
health  officer,  who  shall  without  delay  cause  to  be  placed 
upon  such  house  or  place  a card  bearing  the  name  of  such 
disease,  which  card  shall  not  be  removed  except  by  permis- 
sion of  such  health  officer. 

SEC.  5.  No  person  living  in  a family  where  there  is  a 
case  of  smallpox  shall  attend  school  until  the  patient  shall 
have  passed  the  period  of  desiccation  (falling  off  of  scabs), 
nor  until  the  house  has  been  fumigated  under  the  direction 
and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  health  officer,  nor  without 
certificate  from  said  health  officer  that  said  period  has 
elapsed  and  that  said  fumigation  has  been  properly  per- 
formed. 

Sec.  0.  No  person  living  in  a family  where  there  is  a 
case  of  scarlet  fever  shall  attend  school  until  at  least  five 
weeks  from  the  beginning  of  the  last  case,  nor  until  the 
house  has  been  properly  fumigated  in  the  manner  hereinbe- 
fore provided,  nor  without  certificate  from  the  health  officer 
setting  forth  said  facts. 

SEC.  7.  No  person  living  in  a family  where  there  is  a 
case  of  diphtheria  shall  attend  school  until  at  least  one  week 
after  the  recovery  of  the  last  patient,  nor  until  said  house 
has  been  properly  fumigated  in  manner  aforesaid,  nor  with- 
out a satisfactory  certificate  from  said  health  officer. 

Sec.  8.  The  above  rules  shall,  when  deemed  necessary  by 
the  health  officer,  be  extended  to  all  persons  living  in  the 
same  house  where  any  of  the  above  diseases  exist,  and  said 
health  officer  may,  in  his  discretion,  extend  the  period  of 
isolation  specified  in  the  preceding  sections. 

Sec.  9.  No  person  with  measles,  whooping  cough,  mumps, 
or  chicken  pox,  shall  attend  school  until  complete  recovery 
certified  to  by  the  health  officer. 

Sec.  10.  Such  certificates  will  be  required  by  the  teacher 
in  every  case  before  the  persons  referred  to  in  the  foregoing 
sections  can  be  admitted  to  school. 

Sec.  11.  The  funeral  of  every  person  who  has  died  of 


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smallpox  or  diphtheria,  scarlet  fever,  typhus  fever,  Asiatic 
cholera,  or  other  contagious  or  infectious  disease,  shall  be 
private,  and  the  undertaker  or  person  having  the  care  or 
custody  of  the  body  of  such  deceased,  shall  cause  to  be  con- 
spicuously affixed  to  the  coffin,  casket  or  other  receptacle 
containing  such  remains,  and  in  case  said  coffin,  casket  or 
receptacle  shall  be  enclosed  in  a box,  then  upon  said  box  a 
card  bearing  the  name  of  the  disease  whereof  such  person 
died,  which  card  shall  not  be  removed ; and  no  person  having 
the  care  or  custody  of  such  body  shall  do  or  knowingly  or 
wilfully  permit  to  be  done  any  unnecessary  act  by  which 
such  disease  may  be  spread  from  such  dead  body. 

SEC.  12.  Every  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  pro- 
visions of  the  preceding  section  shall,  upon  conviction  there- 
of, pay  a fine  of  not  more  than  twenty  dollars,  or  be  impris- 
oned not  exceeding  ten  days ; and  any  undertaker  who  shall 
violate  any  provision  of  said  section,  upon  conviction  thereof, 
shall  in  addition  to  the  above  penalty  be  thereupon  and  there- 
by removed  from  the  office  of  undertaker. 

SEC.  13.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  ordinance,  the  punishment  whereof  has  not 
been  hereinbefore  provided  for,  shall,  upon  conviction  there- 
of, pay  a fine  of  not  more  than  twenty  dollars,  or  be  im- 
prisoned not  exceeding  ten  days. 


CHAPTER  29. 


VACCINATION  OF  SCHOOL  CHILDREN. 


Section. 

1.  Fee  and  certificate. 

2.  Any  physician  may  vaccin- 

ate at  public  expense. 

3.  Physician  to  give  certificate. 


Section. 

4.  Physician  vaccinating  at 

private  expense  to  give 
certificate  to  health  offi- 
cer. 

5.  Penalty. 


Section  1.  For  each  case  of  vaccination  at  public  ex- 
pense of  a child  of  school  age,  as  required  by  state  law, 
there  shall  be  paid  by  the  town  the  sum  of  seventy-five  (75) 
cents,  which  shall  include  a certificate  to  the  child  so  vac- 


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cinated,  this  sum,  in  each  instance,  to  be  paid  only  011  proper 
attestation  by  the  health  officer  that  a record  of  such  case  has 
been  certified  to  him  by  the  officiating  physician. 

SFC.  2.  Any  practicing  physician  may,  at  public  expense, 
vaccinate  a child  or  children  of  school  age,  subject  to  the  fol- 
lowing rules : 

1st.  Only  such  pure  bovine  virus  as  is  approved  by  the 
state  board  of  health  shall  be  used  in  any  case. 

2d.  In  no  instance  shall  a scab  from  a person  vaccinated 
be  used  and  transmitted  to  a child  in  vaccination. 

3d.  A certificate  of  vaccination  shall  be  issued  to  the 
child  vaccinated  by  the  officiating  physician,  who  shall  also 
certify  each  case  to  the  health  officer  of  the  town. 

SFC.  3.  The  health  officer  of  the  town  shall  keep  a record 
of  all  cases  certified  to  him  of  the  vaccinated  children  pro- 
vided for  herein. 

Sfic.  4.  A family  physician,  so  called,  or  physician  vac- 
cinating a child  or  children  of  school  age,  at  private  expense, 
shall  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  relative  to 
certifying  each  case  of  such  vaccinated  child  to  the  health 
officer  of  the  town. 

■ Sfc.  5.  Any  physician  who  shall  violate  any  provision  of 
1 his  ordinance  shall,  upon  conviction,  pay  a fine  of  not  more 
than  twenty  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  not  more  than  ten  days 
for  each  ofifence.  And  further,  a physician  so  offending  and 
convicted  of  the  same  shall  be  denied  the  privilege  of  vacci- 
nating school  children  at  public  expense., 


CHAPTER  30. 

SWILh  AND  GARBAGE. 


Section. 

1.  Suitable  receptacle  to  be 

provided. 

2.  How  often  swill  to  be  re- 

moved. 

3.  How  swill  and  house  offal 

to  be  removed  from  town. 

4.  Vehicles  to  be  licensed. 

5.  What  persons  shall  remove 

swill. 

6.  Persons  to  be  appointed  for 

one  year. 


Section. 

7.  No  person,  unless  appointed 

by  town  council,  to  convey 
swill  and  garbage  through 
streets. 

8.  Applicant  for  license  to 

state  where  swill  and  gar- 
bage is  to  be  carried. 

9.  License  fees  to  be  fixed  by 

town  council. 

10.  Penalty. 


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Section  1.  The  occupant  of  every  tenement  house,  dwell- 
ing house  or  other  building  where  swill  or  garbage  shall  ac- 
cumulate shall  provide  a suitable  receptacle,  properly  cov- 
ered, for  such  swill  or  garbage,  and  no  dish  water,  ashes, 
house  sweepings,  bottles,  crockery,  earthen,  glass,  tin  or  iron 
ware,  or  other  rubbish  of  any  kind  shall  be  placed  in  any 
such  receptacle,  nor  shall  any  swill,  garbage  or  offal  be 
placed  in  any  receptacle  for  ashes  or  rubbish,  or, deposited  in 
any  yard  or  vault  or  in  any  other  place  than  its  proper  re- 
ceptacle. 

Sec.  2.  All  swill  and  house  offal  shall  be  removed  from 
each  house  within  the  parts  of  the  town  covered  by  any  con- 
tract or  contracts  that  may  be  made  with  such  town  by  any 
person  or  persons  for  such  removal  at  least  three  times  each 
week  during  the  months  of  May,  June,  July,  August,  Sep- 
tember and  October,  and  twice  each  week  during  the  months 
of  November,  December,  January,  February,  March  and 
April,  of  each  and  every  year,  and  as  much  oftener  as  may 
be  necessary  to  prevent  nuisance  and  decomposition  of  such 
swill  and  house  offal. 

SEC.  3.  All  swill  and  house  offal  shall  be  removed  frorfi 
the  town  in  water-tight,  closely  covered  vehicles,  drawn  by 
one  or  more  horses  or  mules,  or  in  water-tight  tubs  or  casks 
with  covers  securely  fastened,  so  as  to  make  the  tubs  or 
casks  air  tight,  and  all  such  vehicles,  tubs  or  casks  so  used, 
shall  be  kept  clean  and  well  painted  on  the  outside.  No 
vehicle,  tub  or  cask  shall  be  used,  or  continued  in  use,  for 
the  removal  of  swill  and  house  offal  from  the  town  unless 
first  examined  and  approved  by  the  health  officer ; and  the 
covers  of  all  vehicles,  tubs  and  casks  containing  swill  or 
house  offal  shall  be  kept  tightly  closed  when  they  are  driven 
through  the  streets  of  the  town. 

Sec.  4.  All  vehicles  used  to  remove  swill  and  house  offal, 
or  to  transport  tubs  or  casks  containing  swill  and  house  offal, 
shall  be  duly  licensed  and  numbered,  and  all  such  vehicles, 
tubs  and  casks  shall  have  upon  them  such  other  marks  as 
may  be  required  by  the  health  officer. 


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Sec.  5.  Whenever  any  person  shall  be  designated  and 
appointed  to  remove  swill  and  house  offal  from  the  town,  the 
designation  and  appointment  shall  state  definitely  the  houses, 
buildings  or  districts  from  which  such  person  so  designated 
is  to  remove  the  swill  and  house  offal,  and  he  shall  not  re- 
move the  swill  and  house  offal  from  any  other  house,  build- 
ing or  district  than  that  from  which  he  is  designated  and  ap- 
pointed to  remove  it. 

Sec.  C).  All  designations  and  appointments  of  persons  to 
remove  swill  and  house  offal  shall  be  for  the  current  muni- 
cipal year,  and  may  be  revoked  at  any  time  by  the  town 
council. 

Sec.  7.  No  person,  unless  appointed  and  designated  so 
to  do  by  the  town  council,  shall  remove,  carry  or  transport 
any  swill  or  house  offal  from  any  house,  market,  building  or 
premises  within  the  town  over,  upon  or  through  any  street 
or  highway  in  said  town ; nor  shall  any  person,  unless  li- 
censed so  to  do  by  the  town  council,  carry  or  transport  any 
swill  or  house  offal,  removed  from  any  building  or  premises, 
without  the  town  over,  upon  or  through  any  street  or  high- 
way in  said  town. 

Sec.  8.  Every  application  for  a license  to  remove,  carry 
or  transport  any  swill  or  house  offal  over,  upon  or  through 
any  street  or  highway  in  said  town  shall  state  whether  said 
swill  or  house  offal  is  to  be  removed  to  some  place  without 
or  within  the  limits  of  the  said  town,  and,  if  within  the  limits 
of  the  said  town,  shall  designate  the  particular  place  to  which 
such  swill  or  house  offal  is  to  be  removed. 

SEC.  9.  For  every  license  to  remove,  carry  or  transport 
swill  or  house  offal  over,  upon  or  through  any  street  or  high- 
way in  said  town,  the  licensee  shall  pay  such  sums  as  may  be 
fixed  and  determined  from  time  to  time,  by  the  town  council. 

Sec.  10.  Every  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  ordinance  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  two  dollars,  nor 
more  than  twenty  dollars  for  each  day’s  continuance  of  such 
violation. 


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CHAPTER  31. 


CARRYING  AND  DUMPING  CONTENTS  OF  PRIVY- 
VAULTS,  CESSPOOLS  AND  OTHER  OFFENSIVE  MAT- 
TER. 


Section. 

1.  Licenses  required. 

2.  Wagons  and  tubs  to  be  cov- 

ered and  tight. 

3.  Wagons  to  be  painted. 

4.  Wagons  not  to  stand  on 

street  except  while  load- 
ing. 

5.  When  night  soil  to  be  disin- 

fected. 

6.  Health  officer  to  serve  writ- 

ten notice. 


Section. 

7.  Written  permission  of 

health  officer  required  in 
certain  cases. 

8.  Health  officer  to  regulate 

dumping. 

0.  Fine  or  imprisonment. 

10.  Who  may  remove  putrid 

meat  and  dead  animals. 

11.  Fine. 


Section  1.  No  person  shall  bring  or  cause  to  be  brought 
into  this  town,  or  shall  carry  into  or  through  any  public  high- 
way or  street  in  this  town,  any  part  of  the  contents  of  any 
privy-vault,  cesspool  or  slaughter-house  offal,  or  other  offen- 
sive matter,  without  first  obtaining  a license  from  the  town 
council  for  that  purpose,  the  number  of  said  license  to  be 
placed  on  the  vehicle  used  to  convey  said  matter,  and  the 
party  obtaining  such  license  shall  pay  to  the  town  clerk  the 
sum  of  one  dollar  therefor.  Such  person  shall  also  have  his 
wagon  and  tubs  examined  by  the  health  officer  and  shall 
obtain  a permit  from  him  before  using  the  same,  which  per- 
mit must  be  sent  with  the  wagon  at  all  times,  so  as  to  be 
shown  to  the  police  when  called  for. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  or  persons  shall  at  any  time  whatso- 
ever carry  into  or  through  any  public  highway  or  street  in 
this  town  any  part  of  the  contents  of  any  privy-vault,  cess- 
pool, slaughter-house  offal  or  any  offensive  matter  in  any 
cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicle,  or  tubs,  which  shall  not  be 
kept  effectually  covered  and  perfectly  water-tight. 

SEC.  3.  The  box  of  the  wagon  used  for  the  carrying  of 
the  contents  of  privy-vaults,  cesspools,  slaughter-house  offal 
or  any  offensive  matter  shall  be  well  painted  in  such  manner 
as  the  health  officer  may  prescribe,  and  must  be  kept  clean  on 
the  outside.  The  license  number  and  the  number  of  cubic 
feet  capacity  must  be  well  painted  on  tin,  the  figures  to  be 


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not  less  than  three  inches  in  size ; must  be  placed  on  both 
sides  of  the  box,  and  must  be  kept  clean  so  as  to  be  easily 
read. 

Sec.  4.  No  cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicle  having  therein 
any  part  of  the  contents  of  any  privy-vault,  cesspool,  slaugh- 
ter-house offal  or  any  offensive  matter,  shall  be  permitted 
to  stand  (except  while  loading,)  in  any  public  street  or  high- 
way in  this  town. 

Sec.  5.  From  the  first  day  of  May  to  the  first  day  of 
November,  the  night  soil  must  be  disinfected  previous  to 
removal.  The  removal  of  night  soil  shall  always  be  done  in 
the  daytime  unless  by  special  permit.  From  the  first  day  of 
August  to  the  first  day  of  December  the  tubs  only  can  be 
used. 

Sec.  6.  Whenever  any  person  shall  convey  into  this  town 
the  contents  of  any  privy-vault,  cesspool,  slaughter-house 
offa]  or  other  offensive  matter,  to  the  extent  that  it  becomes 
a nuisance  or  obnoxious,  or  cause  the  same  to  be  done  by 
others,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  health  officer  to  serve  a 
written  notice  upon  the  person  or  persons  causing  the  same, 
ordering  him  or  them  to  forthwith  discontinue  the  same,  and 
if  said  order  is  not  complied  with  within  twenty-four  hours, 
the  town  council  shall  revoke  his  or  their  license,  if  he  or 
they  have  any,  and  a further  penalty  shall  be  imposed  by  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars. 

Sec.  7.  No  person  shall  dump  any  part  of  the  contents  of 
any  privy-vault,  cesspool  or  slaughter-house  offal,  or  other 
offensive  matter,  within  the  limits  of  the  compact  portions 
of  the  town  without  the  written  permission  of  the  health  of- 
ficer. Nor  shall  any  person  dump  the  same  in  any  portion 
of  the  town  within  500  feet  of  any  dwelling-house  belonging 
to  or  occupied  by  any  other  person  or  corporation  except  by 
the  written  consent  of  the  health  officer. 

Sec.  8.  The  health  officer  shall  have  power  to  forbid  the 
dumping  of  any  part  of  the  contents  of  any  privy-vault,  cess- 
pool or  slaughter  house  offal,  or  other  offensive  matter,  in 
any  part  of  the  town,  in  case  he  should  find  the  same  to  be 


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injurious  to  health  or  offensive  to  residents  in  the  vicinity. 
He  shall  also  have  power,  should  he  deem  it  necessary,  to 
notify  all  persons  holding  licenses  from  the  town  council  for 
carrying  the  contents  of  any  of  the  foregoing,  within  what 
limits  the  same  may  be  dumped,  and  no  person  shall  there- 
after dump  the  same  in  any  part  of  this  town  except  within 
the  limits  defined  by  the  health  officer. 

Sec.  9.  Any  person  who  shall  bring  or  cause  to  be  brought 
into  this  town  any  part  of  the  contents  of  any  privy-vault, 
cesspool,  slaughter-house  offal  or  other  offensive  matter 
whatsoever,  in  any  cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicle  and  deposit 
the  same  in  any  place  where  it  may  impair  health,  or  by  of- 
fensive odors  annoy  persons  within  their  dwellings  or  while 
traveling  on  any  of  the  public  streets  or  highways  in  the 
compact  part  of  this  town,  shall  be  fined  not  more  than 
twenty  dollars  or  be  imprisoned  for  the  term  of  ten  days, 
and  his  license  shall  be  revoked. 

SEC.  10.  No  person  shall  remove,  carry  or  transport  over, 
upon  or  through  any  street  or  highway  of  the  town  of  East 
Providence  any  diseased  or  putrid  meat  condemned  by  the 
health  officer  of  said  town,  or  the  dead  body  of  any  horse, 
ass,  mule,  ox,  cow,  bull,  hog  or  other  large  animal,  not 
slaughtered  and  in  condition  for  use  as  food,  except  as  may 
be  provided  by  the  statutes  of  the  state,  unless  specially  au- 
thorized so  to  do  by  the  town  council ; and  every  person  vio- 
lating the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  pay  for  each  offence 
a fine  of  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars. 

Sec.  1 1 . Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  chap- 
ter wherein  no  penalty  is  herein  otherwise  prescribed,  shall 
be  fined  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for 
every  violation  thereof,  and  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding 
twenty  dollars  for  each  day’s  continuance  of  the  said  viola- 
tion after  the  service  of  the  notice  issued  upon  the  first  com- 
plaint. 


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CHAPTER  32. 


SEWER  COMMISSIONERS. 


Section. 

1.  Three  members. 

2.  Compensation  to  be  fixed 


Section. 

4.  How  assessments  to  be 


made. 

5.  To  report  to  council. 


by  council. 


3.  To  make  plats. 

Section  1 . A board  of  sewer  commissioners  is  hereby 
established,  to  consist  of  three  members,  who  shall  be  elected 
by  the  town  council,  and  hold  their  office  during,  the  pleasure 
of  said  council. 

Sfc.  2.  Said  commissioners  shall,  before  entering  upon 
the  duties  of  said  office,  be  duly  engaged,  and  for  the  per- 
formance of  said  duties  shall  receive  and  have  such  compen- 
sation as  said  council  shall  from  time  to  time  fix  and  allow. 

Sfc.  3.  Whenever  the  town  council,  in  accordance  with 
the  provisions  of  the  statutes  in  such  cases  made  and  pro- 
vided, shall  adjudge  it  to  be  necessary  to  lay  and  make  main 
drains  and  common  sewers  in  any  of  the  streets  of  said  town, 
said  board  of  sewer  commissioners  shall,  upon  notice  from 
said  council,  take  such  steps  in  the  premises  as  said  council 
may  require,  and  whenever  thereunto  so  requested  shall 
cause  all  necessary  plats  to  be  made,  showing  the  streets 
wherein  said  main  drains  and  common  sewers  are  located 
and  so  much  of  the  estates  abutting  thereon  as  shall  be 
liable  to  assessment  under  an  “Act  in  relation  to  main  drains 
and  common  sewers  in  the  town  of  East  Providence,”  and  all 
acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  amendment  thereof  or  in  addition 
thereto. 

SFC.  4.  Whenever  any  such  main  drain  or  common  sewer 
shall  be  constructed,  an  assessment  shall  be  made  by  said 
commissioners  upon  all  estates  abutting  upon  that  portion  of 
the  street  in  which  such  main  drain  or  common  sewer  shall 
be  located,  and  at  a rate  not  exceeding  twenty-five  cents  for 
each  front  foot  of  such  estates  upon  such  streets,  and  not  ex- 
ceeding one-half  cent  for  each  square  foot  of  such  estates  be- 
tween such  street  and  a line  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and 
fifty  feet  distant  from  and  parallel  with  the  line  of  such 


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street ; provided,  however,  that  where  any  estate  is  situated 
between  two  streets,  the  area  upon  which  such  assessment  of 
not  exceeding  one-half  cent  for  each  square  foot  is  made 
shall  not  extend  to  more  than  one-half  the  distance  between 
such  streets;  and,  provided,  also,  that  where  any  estate  is 
situated  at  the* corner  of  two  streets,  or  is  otherwise  so  situ- 
ated as  to  be  assessed  for  the  expense  of  making  a sewer  in 
one  of  such  streets,  that  portion  of  such  estate  assessed  for 
a sewer  in  one  of  such  streets  shall  not  be  liable  to  be  as- 
sessed upon  its  area  for  the  cost  of  constructing  a sewer  in 
the  other  of  such  streets,  but  only  for  its  frontage  upon  such 
street. 

Sec.  5.  Said  commissioners  shall  make  reports  in  writing 
to  the  town  council  of  all  assessments  made  in  accordance 
with  the  foregoing  provisions. 


Section. 

1.  Power  given  railroad  company. 

Section  1.  The  Union  Railroad  Company  and  its  lessees 
shall  continue  to  maintain  tracks  and  run  electric  cars  over 
the  highways  of  East  Providence,  subject  to  the  ordinances 
and  contracts  in  force  heretofore,  these  ordinances  and  such 
ordinances  as  may  hereafter  be  ordained  by  the  town  coun- 
cil of  the  town  of  East  Providence. 


CHAPTER  33. 


UNION  RAILROAD  COMPANY. 


CHAPTER  34. 


BICYCLES. 


Section. 


1.  Bicycles  subject  to  ordi- 
nances in  force  as  to  use 
of  vehicles. 


Section. 

3.  How  to  pass  other  vehicles. 

4.  Not  to  be  used  on  sidewalks. 
6.  Fine. 


2.  Signal  bell,  how  to  be  at- 
tached and  used. 


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Section  1.  Every  person  propelling  a bicycle,  tricycle, 
tandem  bicycle  or  other  vehicle  in  any  public  highway  or  in 
any  public  park,  square,  street,  lane  or  alley  in  the  town  of 
East  Providence,  shall  have,  except  as  hereinafter  provided, 
the  same  rights  and  be  subject  to  the  same  restrictions  and 
duties  as  provided  with  regard  to  the  use  of  other  vehicles  by 
the  ordinances  of  the  town  of  East  Providence  now  in  force. 

Sec.  2.  In  addition  to  the  aforementioned  provisions, 
every  person  propelling  any  bicycle,  tricycle,  tandem  bicycle, 
or  other  vehicle  in  any  public  highway  or  in  any  public  park, 
square,  street,  lane,  or  alley  in  the  town  of  East  Providence, 
shall  cause  a signal  bell  to  be  attached  thereto,  and  to  be  used 
for  the  purpose  of  giving  warning  of  its  approach ; such  sig- 
nal bell  shall  be  capable  of  being  heard  when  at  rest  a dis- 
tance of  not  less  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  feet,  and  shall 
be  so  attached  to  the  handle  bar  that  it  can  be  positively  and 
directly  operated  by  the  fingers  of  one  hand  of.  the  rider 
without  removing  such  hand  from  the  handle  bar.  Such 
signal  bell  shall  always  be  sounded  with  several  rapid  strokes 
whenever  the  rider  is  approaching  any  person  or  any  other 
vehicle,  and  shall  be  used  in  all  cases  where  there  is  any  dan- 
ger of  collision. 

SEC.  3.  No  more  than  two  persons  using  any  such  vehicle 
shall  be  allowed  to  ride  abreast  each  other.  No  person  riding 
any  such  vehicle  shall  remove  his  feet  from  the  pedals,  ex- 
cept in  case  of  accident  or  for  the  purpose  of  braking  or  dis- 
mounting. Every  person  riding  any  such  vehicle  shall  at  all 
times  keep  at  least  one  hand  upon  the  handle  bar,  and  except 
as-  aforesaid,  both  feet  upon  the  pedals,  in  order  to  retain 
complete  control  of  such  vehicle. 

Sec.  4.  No  person  shall  ride,  propel,  move  or  trundle  any 
bicycle,  tricycle,  or  tandem  bicycle  or  other  such  vehicle  upon 
any  sidewalk  or  public  footwalk  in  the  town,  unless  for  the 
purpose  of  necessarily  crossing  the  same,  or  allow  any  such 
vehicle  belonging  to  him  or  under  his  care  to  stand  or  remain 
on  such  sidewalk  or  public  footwalk. 

Sec.'  5.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 


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ordinance  shall  pay  a fine  of  not  less  than  one  nor  more  than 
twenty  dollars  for  each  offence. 


CHAPTER  35. 


THE  REGULATION  OF  OUTDOOR  ADVERTISING  AND 
THE  PRESERVATION  OF  THE  SAFETY,  HEALTH, 
MORALS,  COMFORT  AND  WELFARE  OF  THE  IN- 
HABITANTS OF  THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 


Section. 

1.  The  power  to  make  the  rules 

and  regulations  following. 

2.  Definition  of  “outdoor  ad- 

vertising.” 

3.  Liquor  advertisement  not 

permitted  within  two  hun- 
dred feet  of  school  or 
church. 

4.  Billboards  on  roofs  to  be 

made  safe. 

5.  Distance  of  billboards  from 

street*  line. 

6.  Where  owner’s  name  may 

be  placed. 

7.  Billboards  must  be  safely 

constructed  and  secured. 


Section. 

8.  Biirpoards  to  be  kept  in  safe 

repair;  duties  of  building- 
inspector  in  reference  to 
dangerous  ones. 

9.  On  repairs  and  rebuilding. 

10.  Immoral  outdoor  advertising 

prohibited. 

11.  Billboards  not  to  be  placed 

on  town  property. 

12.  Penalty  for  violating  pro- 

visions of  ordinance. 

13.  Building  inspector  to  cause 

certain  billboards  to  be 
removed. 

14.  Provisions  of  this  ordinance 

to  be  regarded  as  separ- 
able. 


Section  1.  In  pursuance  of  the  powers  conferred  upon 
the  town  council  by  Chapter  542  of  the  Public  Laws,  passed 
at  the  January  session,  A.  D.  1910,  and  of  all  other  powers 
conferred  upon  the  same  or  the  town  of  East  Providence  by 
general  and  special  laws  hereunto  enabling,  and  in  order  to 
preserve  and  promote  the  public  safety,  health,  morals,  com- 
fort and  general  welfare,  the  following  regulations  and  laws 
are  hereby  made  and  established  respecting  the  following 
matters  and  things  within  the  town  of  East  Providence. 

Sec.  2.  The  term  “outdoor  advertising”  as  used  in  this 
ordinance  shall  apply  only  to  all  such  advertising  now  or 
hereafter  displayed  in  the  town  of  East  Providence  so  as  to 
attract  the  attention  of  persons  on  any  public  highway,  or 
while  in  the  vehicle  of  any  common  carrier,  or  in  any  station 
of  such  carrier,  or  while  in  any  public  building,  public  park, 
public  grounds  or  other  public  places,  whether  such  adver- 
tising be  by  means  of  printing,  writing,  picture  or  a combina- 


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tion  thereof,  and  whatever  may  be  the  means  of  display,  ex- 
cept that  it  shall  not  include  advertising  located  upon  private 
property  and  relating  exclusively  to  the  business  conducted 
on  such  property  or  the  sale  or  rental  thereof,  or  advertising 
in  or  upon  the  cars  and  stations  of  any  common  carrier. 

Sec.  3.  No  outdoor  advertising  of  whiskey,  ale,  wine, 
rum  or  other  strong  or  malt  intoxicating  liquor,  the  sale  of 
which  without  a license  is  prohibited  by  the  general  laws  of 
the  state,  shall  be  permitted  within  two  hundred  feet  of  the 
premises  of  any  public  or  parochial  school  or  of  any  church. 

SEC.  4.  No  structure  or  billboard,  constructed  or  used  for 
the  display  of  outdoor  advertising,  shall  be  located  upon  or 
over  the  roof  of  any  building  in  any  part  of  the  town  in  such 
place  thereon  or  thereover  that,  if  it  should  be  blown  down 
by  the  wind  or  should  fall  by  reason  of  its  supports  or  any 
part  of  the  building  becoming  decayed  or  otherwise  out  of 
repair  or  condition  or  by  reason  of  such  supports  or  any  part 
of  the  building  being  consumed  or  damaged  by  fire,  it  or  any 
part  thereof  would  be  liable  to  fall  upon  any  street,  lane  or 
ether  public  travelled  way ; and  to  more  definitely  secure  the 
public  safety  and  diminish  the  danger  from  fire,  no  such 
structure  or  billboard,  located  upon  or  over  the  roof  of  any 
building  in  the  town,  shall  be  constructed  more  than  nine 
and  one-half  feet  high,  nor,  if  eleyated  on  supports,  more 
than  eleven  and  one-half  feet  high  over  all,  measuring  fi;om 
the  part  of  the  roof  where  the  same  is  located,  nor  shall  any 
one  of  the  same  be  constructed  more  than  twenty  feet  in 
length,  nor  without  leaving  open  spaces  over  the  building  be- 
yond the  two  ends  each  at  least  two  feet  wide,  nor  any  two 
or  more  of  the  same  without  open  spaces  over  the  building 
between  and  beyond  the  several  ends  at  least  two  feet  wide, 
nor  shall  any  of  the  same  be  constructed  in  any  manner  that  . 
will  prevent  firemen  from  having  reasonable  access  from  any 
street,  lane  or  other  public  travelled  way  by  means  of  ladders 
to  the  roof  of  the  building  and  the  parts  of  the  same  behind 
such  structure  or  billboard,  nor  shall  any  structure  or  bill- 
board be  attached  to  or  placed  upon  any  part  of  any  building 


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in  the  town  so  as  to  obstruct  any  window  thereof  or  fire  es- 
cape thereon,  nor  in  front  of  the  cornice  or  coping  of  any 
such  building  so  as  to  prevent  firemen  from  having  reason- 
able access  from  any  street,  lane  or  other  public  travelled 
way  by  means  of  ladders  to  the  roof  of  the  building. 

Sec.  5.  Xo  billboard  or  other  like  structure  in  the  town, 
constructed  or  used  for  the  display  of  outdoor  advertising, 
which  is  attached  to  the  ground,  and  which  is  more  than  six 
feet  in  height  from  the  ground,  and  which  is  not  securely  and 
immediately  attached  to  the  outside  surface  of  a building, 
shall  be  located  nearer  the  line  of  any  street,  lane  or  other 
public  travelled  way,  or  the  line  of  any  lot  upon  which  any 
* building  is  located  or  which  is  otherwise  in  use,  than  a dis- 
tance equal  to  the  height  of  such  billboard  or  structure,  un- 
less all  supports  or  parts  thereof  set  in  or  resting  upon  the 
ground  shall  be  of  brick,  stone,  terra  cotta,  concrete  or  metal, 
alone  or  in  combination  with  any  other  or  others  of  the  same, 
and  unless  such  billboard  or  structure  shall  be  securely  at- 
tached to  such  supports  or  parts  thereof.  To  better  secure 
the  public  safety,  to  prevent  nuisances  and  to  promote  the 
other  public  objects  hereof,  no  such  billboard  or  structure 
shall  be  constructed  more  than  nine  and  one-half  feet  high, 
nor  including  its  supports  more  than  eleven  and  one-half  feet 
high  over  all,  measuring  from  the  ground,  where  the  same  is 
located,  except  where  the  grade  of  the  ground  is  not  suffi- 
ciently level  to  permit  the  board  or  structure  to  be  on  a level, 
in  order  to  allow  for  the  purpose  only  of  having  the  same  on 
a level,  higher  supports  without  diminishing  the  height  of  the 
board  or  structure,  such  board  or  structure  may  be  erected  to 
such  greater  height  as  may  be  necessary  for  said  purpose, 
but  in  no  event  shall  the  highest  end  or  other  highest  point 
thereof  be  more  than  fourteen  and  one-half  feet  over  all 
above  the  ground,  and  every  such  billboard  and  structure 
shall  be  so  constructed  and  elevated  on  posts  or  other  sup- 
ports that  every  point  of  the  lowest  edge  thereof  shall  be  at 
least  two  feet  above  the  ground,  where  the  same  is  located, 
with  a clear  space  below  such  board  or  structure  between 


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the  posts  or  other  supports,  and  no  such  billboard  or  struc- 
ture shall  exceed  thirty-six  feet  in  length,  and  there  shall  be 
an  open  space  of  at  least  two  feet  between  any  two  such  bill- 
boards or  structures. 

Sec.  6.  Every  structure  or  billboard  within  the  purview 
of  this  ordinance  may  have  a further  structure  or  extension 
immediately  attached  to  the  top  of  such  structure  or  bill- 
board to  be  used  only  for  placing  thereon  the  owner’s  name 
and  place  O'f  business,  such  further  structure  or  extension  to 
be  not  more  than  six  feet  in  length  nor  more  than  six  inches 
in  height,  and  to  be  constructed  and  maintained  subject  to 
and  in  conformity  with  all  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance 
applicable  thereto,  except  that  the  height  of  the  same  shall 
not  be  included  in  any  of  the  heights  hereinbefore  specified, 
but  may  be  in  addition  thereto. 

Sec.  7.  Every  structure  and  billboard  within  the  purview 
of  this  ordinance  shall  be  substantially  and  safely  con- 
structed, fastened  and  secured,  and,  when  reasonably  neces- 
sary, shall  be  thoroughly  anchored  or  braced,  or  both,  and  es- 
pecially so  when  located  upon  or  over  the  roof  of  any  build- 
ing in  the  town.  The  installation  of  all  apparatus,  wires  and 
lamps  attached  or  appurtenant  to  any  such  structure  or  bill- 
board for  the  electric  illumination  thereof  shall  be  in  accord- 
ance with  the  rules  and  requirements  of  the  Insurance  Asso- 
ciation of  Providence,  in  force  at  the  time  the  work  is  done. 
No  such  structure  or  billboard,  which  or  any  part  of  which  is 
made  of  wood,  shall  have  any  attachments  or  appurtenances 
for  electric  or  other  illumination  of  the  same. 

Sec.  8.  Every  structure  and  billboard  constructed  or  used 
for  the  display  of  outdoor  advertising,  now  or  hereafter  ex- 
isting, shall  be  kept  and  maintained  by  the  owner  or  other 
person  or  persons  interested  therein  in  such  condition  and 
state  of  repair  as  not  to  be  dangerous ; and  every  such  struc- 
ture and  billboard,  now  or  hereafter  existing,  which  is  or 
shall  become  dangerous  for  any  reason  or  in  any  manner 
whatever,  or  dangerous  to  the  public  on  any  street,  lane  or 
other  public  travelled  way,  or  which  shall  be  especially  dan- 


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gerous  in  case  of  fire  for  any  reason  or  in  any  manner  what- 
ever, shall  be  made  safe  or  be  removed  as  may  be  necessary 
by  the  owner  or  other  person  or  persons  interested  therein, 
or,  if  he  or  they  shall  fail  so  to  do,  by  the  owner  of  the  build- 
ing or  premises  on  or  over  which  the  same  is  located.  If  any 
such  structure  or  billboard,  now  or  hereafter  existing,  shall 
at  any  time  appear  to  the  inspector  of  buildings  of  the  town 
to  be  dangerous  for  any  reason  or  in  any  manner  whatever, 
or  dangerous  to  the  public  on  any  street,  lane  or  other  public 
travelled  way,  or  to  be  especially  dangerous  in  case  of  fire 
or  for  any  reason  or  in  any  manner  whatever,  he  shall  in 
writing  give  notice  thereof  to  the  owner  or  other  person  or 
persons  interested  therein,  and  order  such  owner,  person  or 
persons  to  make  the  same  safe  or  to  remove  the  same,  as  may 
be  necessary,  and  to  begin  the  required  work  within  such 
reasonable  time  as  may  be  prescribed  by  him  in  such  order, 
and  to  complete  the  same  as  expeditiously  as  practicable.  If 
such  owner,  person  or  persons  shall  fail  so  to  do,  said  inspec- 
tor may  give  like  notice  and  order  to  the  owner  of  the  build- 
ing or  premises,  on  or  over  which  such  structure  or  billboard 
is  located,  prescribing  therein  a reasonable  time  for  be- 
ginning the  work  of  such  repairs  or  removal  upon  such  build- 
ing or  premises.  Every  such  notice  and  order  shall  be  served 
by  leaving  a written  or  printed  copy  thereof  with  the  owner 
or  owners  or  some  one  of  the  owners  or  other  persons  inter- 
ested personally,  or  by  posting  a written  or  printed  copy^there- 
of  on  the  premises  concerned,  and  either  leaving  a duplicate 
copy  thereof  at  the  usual  place  of  abode  of  the  owner  or  own- 
ers or  some  one  of  the  owners  or  other  persons  interested,  if 
within  the  town,  or  by  mailing  such  duplicate  in  a registered 
letter  to  the  usual  address  of  the  same  if  residing  without  the 
town,  or  publishing  the  said  notice  and  order  three  successive 
days  in  any  newspaper  published  in  the  county  of  Provi- 
dence and  having  a general  circulation  in  said  town.  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  every  such  owner  or  person  notified  pursuant 
hereto  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of  such  order.  If 
upon  the  trial  of  any  complaint  for  any  violation  of  any  such 


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order,  it  shall  be  found  by  the  court  or  jury  that  the  struc- 
ture or  billboard  at  the  time  of  such  notice  or  order  was  in 
fact  not  dangerous  as  aforesaid,  such  order  shall  be  annulled 
and  the  defendant  discharged. 

Sec.  9.  No  outdoor  advertising  shall  be  placed,  main- 
tained or  displayed  on  or  as  part  of  any  structure  or  bill- 
board within  the  purview  of  this  ordinance,  which  shall  not 
be  constructed  and  located  in  conformity  with  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance.  No  structure  or  billboard  constructed  or 
used  for  the  display  of  outdoor  advertising  shall  hereafter 
be  erected,  constructed,  relocated,  rebuilt,  altered,  changed  or 
materially  repaired,  unless  the  plans  thereof  and  specifica- 
tions therefor  and  designation  of  any  new  location  thereof 
shall  first  be  filed  with  the  inspector  of  buildings  of  the  town 
and  be  approved  by  him  in  writing,  as  in  conformity  with  the 
provisions  of  this  ordinance.  Except  as  in  this  ordinance 
otherwise  expressly  provided,  this  ordinance  shall  not  be  con- 
strued to  affect  or  prevent  the  continued  maintenance  or  use 
of  any  such  existing  structure  and  billboard,  but  all  the 
same  when  relocated,  rebuilt,  altered,  changed  or  materially 
repaired,  shall  be  constructed  and  located  subject  to  and  in 
conformity  with  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  10.  No  outdoor  advertising  of  an  obscene,  indecent, 
licentious  or  immoral  character  or  kind,  or  depicting  the  com- 
mission of  any  crime,  shall  be  displayed  or  maintained  on  or 
as  part  of  any  billboard  or  structure,  constructed  or  used  for 
the  display  of  outdoor  advertising  and  now  or  hereafter  ex- 
isting. In  order  more  effectually  to  secure  compliance  with 
.this  regulation,  no  outdoor  advertising  shall  be  displayed,  ex- 
posed, posted  up  or  exhibited  on  or  as  part  of  any  such  bill- 
board or  structure,  unless  the  subject  matter  thereof  shall 
have  first  been  approved  by  the  chief  of  police  of  the  town  in 
writing,  as  in  conformity  with  this  regulation. 

Sec.  11.  No  structure  or  billboard  shall  be  constructed  or 
used  for  outdoor  advertising,  and  no  outdoor  advertising 
shall  be  displayed  in  or  on  any  estate  or  building  owned  or 
controlled  by  the  town  and  used  for  public  purposes,  or  any 


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ORDINANCES  OR  THE 


vacant  lot  or  land  owned  and  controlled  by  the  town  or  on 
any  fence,  wall  or  appurtenance  of  any  of  the  same,  or  on 
any  tree,  post,  rock,  pole  or  town  property  within  the  occu- 
pation line  of  any  street  or  highway. 

SEC.  12.  Every  person,  whether  principal  or  agent  or  act- 
ing in  any  capacity  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  regulations 
hereof,  or  maintain  or  display  any  such  outdoor  advertising 
without  the  approval  herein  required,  shall  be  subject  to  a 
fine  of  not  exceeding  ten  dollars  for  every  day  such  violation, 
maintenance  or  display  shall  continue,  as  prescribed  in  said 
Chapter  542  of  the  Public  Laws. 

Sec.  13.  After  any  person,  maintaining  or  displaying  any 
outdoor  advertising  or  any  structure  or  billboard,  in  viola- 
tion of  sections  3 to  11,  both  inclusive,  shall  have  been  con- 
victed of  such  violation,  the  inspector  of  buildings  shall 
cause  the  same  to  be  removed,  and  the  expenses  of  such  re- 
movals shall  be  charged  to  the  incidental  account. 

SEC.  14.  Every  provision  of  every  regulation  hereof  is 
intended  to  be  separable  so  far  as  possible,  and  if  any  special 
requirement,  restriction,  limitation  or  provision  herein,  al- 
though intended  to  be  reasonable,  should  be  adjudged  to  be 
invalid,  it  is  not  intended  that  the  same  shall  affect  the 
validity  of  any  other  provision  or  provisions  herein,  and  it 
is  intended  that  every  general  provision  referring  to  or  in- 
volving other  provision's  herein  shall  apply  only  to  all  such 
other  provisions  as  are  valid. 


CHAPTER  36. 


ORDINANCES. 


Section. 

1.  Enacting  style. 

2.  Ordinances  to  be  published 


Section. 


6.  When  ordinance  to  go  into 
operation. 


as  chapters. 

5.  Discharge  seven  days  after 


in  newspapers. 

3.  Ordinances  in  amendment. 

4.  Ordinances  to  be  numbered 


7.  Previous  ordinances  which 
are  repugnant  repealed, 
saving  vested  rights,  suits 
pending,  etc. 


committment. 


8.  When  foregoing  ordinances 
shall  go  into  operation. 


Section  1.  The  enacting  style  of  all  ordinances  shall  be, 


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'‘It  is  ordained  by  the  Town  Council  of  the  Town  of  East 
Providence  as  follows 

Sec.  2.  All  ordinances  hereafter  enacted  shall  be  by  the 
town  clerk  published  in  some  newspaper  printed  in  the  city 
of  Providence,  within  ten  days  after  the  passage  of  said 
ordinance. 

SEC.  3.  All  ordinances  in  amendment  of  or  in  addition  to 
any  chapter  of  the  town  ordinances  shall  contain  in  the  title 
thereof  a reference  to  the  number  and  name  of  the  chapter 
to  which  the  same  is  in  amendment  or  addition. 

Sec.  4.  The  town  clerk  shall  number  all  ordinances  as 
chapters  consecutively  in  the  order  of  their  passage  from  the 
number  of  the  last  chapter  of  the  town  ordinances. 

Sec.  5.  Where  persons  are  committed  in  default  of  pay- 
ment of  fine  and  costs,  the  justice  may  in  his  mittimus  direct 
that  the  respondent  shall  be  discharged  seven  days  after  com- 
mitment if  said  fine  and  costs  be  not  sooner  paid. 

Sec.  6.  All  ordinances  passed  by  the  town  council  of  the 
town  of  East  Providence  shall  go  into  operation  and  effect 
immediately  upon  the  passage  thereof,  unless  otherwise 
specially  ordered. 

Sec.  7.  All  ordinances  heretofore  passed  by  said  town 
council  of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  which  are  repug- 
nant to  the  provisions  of  the  above  named  ordinances,  shall 
be  and  they  are  hereby  declared  to  be  repealed  from  and 
after  the  thirtieth  day  of  September,  A.  D.  1911,  except  as 
provided  in  chapte-r  33  of  these  ordinances ; provided,  how- 
ever, that  nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  defeat,  discharge, 
or  in  any  way  affect  any  right,  title,  interest,  duty,  obligation, 
penalty,  forfeiture,  claim  or  demand  which  shall  have  vested, 
enured,  accrued  or  become  forfeited  by  virtue  of  the  ordin- 
ances now  in  force  or  which  shall  be  in  force  until  and  in- 
cluding the  said  thirtieth  day  of  September,  A.  D.  1911,  nor 
shall  anything  in  this  ordinance,  or  in  any  of  the  ordinances 
hereinbefore  named,  be  construed  to  bar,  discharge  or  abate 
any  civil  or  criminal  process  whatsoever  now  pending,  or 
which  shall  hereafter  be  commenced  or  pending,  nor  to  miti- 


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gate,  remit  or  discharge  any  criminal  offense,  or  the  punish- 
ment thereof,  that  shall  have  been  committed  before  or  on 
the  last  mentioned  day. 

Sec.  8.  The  foregoing  ordinances  are  hereby  declared  to 
be  the  ordinances  of  this  town  of  East  Providence ; and  they 
shall  go  into  operation  and  effect  on  the  thirtieth  day  of 
September,  A.  D.  1911. 


town  oe  east  providence. 


Town  CeErk's  Oeeice, 

East  Providence,  R.  I.,  August  2,  1911. 

I hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  ordinance,  comprising 
the  ordinances  of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  was  passed 
by  the  town  council  of  the  town  of  East  Providence,  on  the 
2nd  day  of  August,  A.  D.  1911. 


Attest : 


Orders  of  Town  Council 


OP  THE 


Town  of  East  Providence. 


TOWN  OF  FAST  PROVIDENCE}. 


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ORDERS  OF  TOWN  COUNCIL. 

DIVISION  OF  THE  REPRESENTATIVE  DISTRICTS  OF  THE 
TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE  INTO  DISTRICTS  FOR 
THE  PURPOSE  OF  VOTING. 

The  Representative  Districts  of  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence as  described  and  defined  by  Chapter  640,  Public  Laws, 
passed  by  the  General  Assembly,  August  22nd,  1910,  are  by 
the  town  council  of  said  town,  on  this  31st  day  of  August, 
A.  D.  1910,  divided  into  voting  districts  in  accordance  with 
the  authority  granted  in  said  act,  as  follows : 

The  First  Representative  District  consisting  “of  all  that 
part  of  said  town  bounded  by  a line  beginning  at  a point  in 
the  Seekonk  River  where  the  Pawtucket-East  Providence 
boundary  lines  intersect,  extending  easterly  on  the 
Pawtucket-East  Providence  line  to  the  Massachu- 
setts-Rhode  Island  boundary  line ; southerly  on  said 
boundary  line  to  Taunton  avenue ; southwesterly  through  the 
centre  of  Taunton  avenue  to  a point  opposite  the  eastern  line 
of  the  East  Providence  Town  Hall ; southerly  along  the  east- 
erly line  of  said  Town  Hall  to  a point  opposite  the  centre  of 
the  east  and  west  line  of  said  Town  Hall ; westerly  in  the  line 
of  and  on  the  said  line  through  the  centre  of  said  Town  Hall 
to  the  westerly  line  of  said  Town  Hall ; northerly  on  the 
westerly  line  of  said  Town  Hall  to  Taunton  avenue;  south- 
westerly through  the  centre  of  Taunton  avenue  to  Walnut 
street;  northerly  through  the  centre  of  Walnut  street  to 
Waterman  avenue;  westerly  through  the  centre  of  Waterman 
avenue  to  the  Providence-East  Providence  boundary  line  in 
the  Seekonk  River ; northerly  on  said  line  to  the  place  of 
beginning,”  is  hereby  divided  into  two  Voting  Districts,  viz. : 
All  that  part  of  the  First  Representative  District  above 
described  lying  north  of  a line  beginning  at  the  east  abutment 


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ORDERS  OF  TOWN  COUNCIL  OF  THE 


of  the  Red  Bridge  in  said  town,  and  running  easterly  through 
the  centre  of  Waterman  avenue  to  Massasoit  avenue; 
through  the  centre  of  said  Massasoit  avenue  to  North 
Broadway;  northerly  through  the  centre  of  North  Broad- 
way to  Centre  street ; easterly  through  the  centre  of  Centre 
street  to  Pawtucket  avenue ; northerly  through  the  centre  of 
Pawtucket  avenue  to  Ten  Mile  River;  easterly,  bounding  on 
Ten  Mile  River,  to  the  Massachusetts  boundary;  shall  con- 
stitute Voting  District  number  one ; and  all  that  part  of  the 
“First  Representative  District”  lying  south  of  said  described 
line  shall  constitute  Voting  District  number  two. 

The  Second  Representative  District  consisting  “of  all  that 
part  of  said  town  bounded  by  a line  beginning  at  a point  in 
the  Seekonk  River  at  the  intersection  of  the  Providence- 
East  Providence  boundary  line  and  Waterman  avenue ; ex- 
tending southeasterly  through  the  centre  of  Waterman  ave- 
nue to  Walnut  street ; southwesterly  through  the  centre  of 
Walnut  street  to  Taunton  avenue ; easterly  through  the  centre 
of  Taunton  avenue  to  the  line  of  the  westerly  line  of  the  East 
Providence  Town  Hall ; southerly  along  said  line  to  a point 
opposite  the  centre  of  the  east  and  west  line  of  said  Town 
Hall ; easterly  in  the  line  of  and  on  said  line  through  the  cen- 
tre of  said  Town  Hall  to  the  easterly  line  of  said  Town  Hall ; 
northerly  on  the  easterly  line  of  said  Town  Hall  to  Taunton 
avenue;  easterly  through  the  centre  of  Taunton  avenue  to 
Broadway;  southerly  through  the  centre  of  Broadway  to  a 
point  where  it  crosses  the  inlet  to  Watchemoket  Cove;  south- 
erly through  said  inlet  and  Watchemoket  Cove  to  the  railroad 
bridge  over  the  outlet  of  Watchemoket  Cove;  due  west  on 
the  line  of  and  through  said  outlet  to  the  East 
Providence  town  line  in  Narragansett  Bay;  northerly  and 
northeasterly  on  said  line  to  the  place  of  beginning;”  said 
Second  Representative  District  remains  undivided  and  con- 
tains only  one  Voting  District,  whose  lines  correspond  with 
the  lines  of  the  Second  Representative  District  and  is  desig- 
nated as  Voting  District  number  three. 

The  Third  Representative  District  consisting  “of  all  that 


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part  of  said  town  bounded  by  a line  beginning  at  a point  on 
the  Rhode  Island-Massachusetts  State  line  where  Taunton 
avenue  enters  the  town,  extending  southerly  on  said  State 
line  to  its  intersection  with  the  East  Providence-Barrington 
boundary  line;  westerly  on  the  East  Providence-Barrington 
boundary  line  to  the  East  Providence  town  line  in  Narragan- 
sett  Bay;  northwesterly  on  said  town  line  to  a point  in  said 
line  due  east  of  the  railroad  bridge  over  the  outlet  of  Watche- 
moket  Cove ; easterly  on  the  line  of  and  through  said  outlet 
to  Watchemoket  Cove  ; northerly  through  said  cove  and  the 
inlet  to  said  cove  to  where  said  inlet  is  crossed  by  Broadway ; 
northerly  through  the  centre  of  Broadway  to  Taunton  ave- 
nue; easterly  through  the  centre  of  Taunton  avenue  to  the 
place  of  beginning,”  is  hereby  divided  into  two  Voting  Dis- 
tricts, viz. : 

All  that  part  of  the  Third  Representative  District  above 
described  lying  north  of  a line  beginning  at  the  Silver  Spring 
wharf,  in  said  town,  and  running  easterly  through  the  centre 
of  the  road  from  Silver  Spring  to  Pawtucket  avenue  and 
thence  running  east  to  the  boundary  line  between  the  States 
of  Rhode  Island  and  Massachusetts,  shall  constitute  Voting 
District  number  four,  and  all  that  part  of  said  Third  Repre- 
sentative District  lying  south  of  said  described  line  shall  con- 
stitute Voting  District  number  five. 


BUILDING,  ALTERING  AND  AMENDING  SIDEWALKS  IN 
THE  TOWN  OF  EAST  PROVIDENCE. 

It  is  ordered  and  directed  by  the  town  council  of  the  town 
of  East  Providence  as  follows,  viz. : 

1st.  That  when  the  said  town  council  shall  have  deter- 
mined in  what  manner,  of  what  materials  and  within 
what  time  any  new  sidewalk  shall  be  made,  or  in  what  man- 
ner and  within  what  time  any  old  sidewalk  shall  be  altered 
and  amended  and  improved  that  written  or  printed  notice 
thereof  shall  be  given  to  the  owner  of  the  adjoining  land 


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ORDERS  OF  TOWN  COUNCIL  OF  THE 


particularly  describing  the  materials,  width,  height  and  man- 
ner the  sidewalk  shall  be  built  or  tli£  alteration  shall  be  made, 
in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  Chapter  486  of  the 
Public  Laws,  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  on  the  seventh 
da)’  of  May,  A.  D.  1909. 

2nd.  That  when  a sidewalk  shall  be  built,  altered  and  im- 
proved by  concreting  the  same  the  following  order  shall  be 
made  by  the  said  town  council,  viz. : 

Town  of  East  Providence. 

Council  Chamber. 

East  Providence,  R.  I., 191 

It  is  hereby  ordered  and  directed,  that  the  sidewalks  on 
street  in  the  town  of  East  Provi- 
dence, shall  be  altered  and  improved  by  concreting  the  same 

so  that  said  sidewalks  for  .heir  whole 

length,  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  the  width  as  occupied,  . . 

of  an  inch  rise  per  foot  from  the  inside  of  the  curb  to  the 
street  line,  except  modification  necessary  to  meet  the  occupa- 
tion line,  or  suoh  other  modification  as  the  town  council 
may  prescribe,  and  shall  be  otherwise  constructed  in  manner 
and  of  materials  as  follows,  viz : 

All  material  above  said  grade  shall  be  excavated  and  re- 
moved. Good  sand  or  gravel  shall  be  used  for  filling  when- 
ever it  may  be  required. 

The  foundation  shall  be  composed  of  clean,  coarse  gravel, 
properly  coated  with  tar,  and  shall  not  be  less  than  two  inches 
in  depth,  after  being  rolled  and  thoroughly  compacted. 

The  top  of  the  foundation  shall  be  brought  to  a smooth 
surface  by  the  addition  of  fine  pebble,  completely  coated  with 
tar  and  thoroughly  rolled. 

The  ordinary  top  dressing  shall  consist  of  clean,  sharp 
sand,  thoroughly  saturated  with  tar,  and  applied  in  a layer  of 
such  thickness  that,  after  being  rolled  and  compacted,  it  will 
not  be  less  than  an  inch  in  depth.  The  total  depth  of  walk 
when  finished  shall  not  be  less  than  three  iixnes. 


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For  driveways  the  top  dressing  shall  be  two  inches  thick, 
either  a Trinidad  Asphalt  covering  satisfactory  to  the  town 
council,  or  it  shall  consist  of  fine,  clean,  sharp,  screened  sand, 
heated  to  290°  and  well  saturated  with  “Anchor”  brand 
asphaltic  paving  cement  made  by  the  Warren  Chemical  Com- 
pany, or  an  asphaltic  paving  cement  equally  as  good,  heated 
to  300°,  the  whole  to  be  thoroughly  rolled  with  a heavy  roller 
and  before  any  “set”  takes  place.  During  the  rolling  a small 
amount  of  hydraulic  cement  shall  be  swept  over  the  surface 
of  the  asphalt.  Mixing  must  be  near  the  work  to  avoid 
cooling. 

The  quality  of  the  tar  used  shall  be  equal  in  all  respects  to 
that  made  by  the  Providence  Gas  Company.  The  gravel  and 
sand  shall  be  thoroughly  dry  before  coating  or  saturating  the 
same  with  tar. 

Said  alteration  and  improvement  of  said  sidewalks  shall 
be  completed  within  six  weeks  from  the  date  hereof. 

At  the  expiration  of  the  time  so  limited,  if  the  work  shall 
not  have  been  performed,  or  proceeded  with  in  accordance 
with  the  above  directions  the  town  council  will,  in  its  discre- 
tion, order  the  surveyor  of  highways,  in  whose  district  the 
said  sidewalk  is  situated,  to  proceed  to  execute  the  work ; and 
when  the  same  has  been  by  him  accomplished,  the  said  town 
council  will  certify  the  expenses  thereof  to  the  assessors  of 
taxes  for  said  town,  together  with  ten  per  cent.,  in  addition, 
which  said  sum  so  certified  shall  be  by  the  said  assessors 
added  to  the  tax  of  the  owner  of  such  adjoining  land  so 
neglecting  as  aforesaid,  as  provided  in  said  Chapter  486  of 
the  Public  Laws. 

And  it  is  hereby  further  ordered  and  directed,  that  the 
notices  of  the  aforegoing  order  and  direction  required  to  be 
given,  and  the  publication  of  the  aforegoing  required  to  be 
made,  shall  be  given  or  made,  as  the  case  may  be,  in  manner 
and  as  required  by  law. 

3d.  That  when  a sidewalk  shall  be  built,  altered  and  im- 
proved in  any  other  manner  than  by  concreting  the  same, 
whether  of  stone,  cement  or  brick,  the  town  council  shall 
make  a specific  order  for  the  same,  substantially  in  the  above 


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ORDERS  OF  TOWN  COUNCIL  OF  THF 


form,  due  regard  being  had  to  the  difference  of  materials  and 
the  proper  manner  of  construction  with  such  materials. 

4th.  That  when  a sidewalk  shall  be  repaired  by  order  of 
the  town  council,  the  town  council  shall  make  an  order  sub- 
stantially as  follows,  viz. : 

Town  of  East  Providence. 

Council  Chamber. 

East  Providence,  R.  1 191 

It  is  hereby  ordered  and  directed,  that  the  sidewalks  on 

street,  in  the  town  of  East  Providence,  shall 

be  improved  by  repairing  the  same  opposite  the  lot  taxed  to 
: . . . .which  said  lot  is  No on 


Plat Assessors  plat 

Lot Said  improvement  of 


said  sidewalk  shall  be  completed  within 

weeks  from  date  hereof. 

At  the  expiration  of  the  time  so  limited,  if  the  work  shall 
not  have  been  performed  or  proceeded  with  in  accordance 
with  the  above  directions  the  town  council,  will,  in  its  dis- 
cretion, order  the  surveyor  of  highways,  in  whose  district 
said  sidewalk  is  situated,  to  proceed  to  execute  the  work,  at 
the  expense  of  the  town,  and  the  cost  thereof,  together  with 
ten  per  cent,  in  addition  thereto,  will  be  assessed  to  the  abut- 
ting owner  or  owners,  as  provided  in  said  Chapter  486  of  the 
Public  Laws,  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  May  7th,  A. 
D.  1909. 

5th.  It  is  hereby  ordered  that  the  town  council  may,  in 
its  discretion,  order  and  direct  the  sidewalks  on  any  street  to 
be  altered  and  improved  throughout  the  whole  or  a part  of 
their  length,  and  that  the  portion  so  altered  and  improved 
may  be  constructed  of  any  one  specified  material,  or  of  dif- 
ferent materials  in  different  parts  thereof,  due  notice  thereof 
being  given  to  the  abutting  owners. 

6th.  It  is  hereby  ordered  and  directed  that  all  notices  to 


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abutting  owners  for  the  building,  altering,  amending  and  im- 
proving sidewalks  shall  be  signed  as  follows,  viz. : 

By  Order  oe  the  Town  Council, 

Council  Clerk. 

the  name  of  the  then  Council  Clerk  being  written  after  the 
words  “Town  Council”  and  before  the  words  “Council 
Clerk,”  and  that  such  notices  shall  contain  substantially  the 
specific  orders  and  directions  of  the  town  council. 


Rules  and  Regulations 


of  The 


Town  Council  of  East  Providence. 


RULES  AND  REGULATIONS 


OF  THE 

Town  Council  of  East  Providence 

For  the:  Gove:rnme:nt  or  the;  Police:  Force:. 


GENERAL  RULES. 


1.  Each  member  of  the  police  force  shall  devote  his  whole 
time  and  attention  to  the  business  of  the  department;  and  he 
is  expressly  prohibited  from  following  any  other  calling,  or 
being  employed  in  any  other  business.  Although  certain 
hours  are  allotted  to  the  respective  members  for  the  perform- 
ance of  duty  on  ordinary  occasions,  yet  at  all  times  they  must 
be  prepared  to  act  immediately,  on  notice  that  their  services 
are  required. 

2.  Punctual  attendance,  prompt  obedience  to  orders,  and 
conformity  to  the  rules  of  the  department,  shall  be  rigidly 
enforced. 

3.  Each  member  must  be  quiet,  civil  and  orderly  in  his 
conduct  and  deportment,  in  the  performance  of  his  duty ; he 
must  be  attentive  and  zealous,  control  his  temper,  and  exer- 
cise the  utmost  patience  and  discretion.  He  must,  at  all 
times,  refrain  from  harsh,  violent,  coarse  and  profane  lan- 
guage, and  when  circumstances  require,  act  with  energy  and 
decision. 


Members  of  po- 
lice to  devote 
whole  time  to 
business  of  the 
department. 


To  conform  to 
rules  of  depart- 
ment. 


To  be  orderly 
and  zealous. 


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RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  OE  THE 


Not  to  use 
intoxicating 
liquors  &c, 
when  on  duty. 


Not  to  receive 
rewards,  &c, 
without  permis- 
sion of  town 
council. 


Disobedience  of 
orders,  &c, 
how  punished. 


Complaints 
against  police, 
how  to  be  made 
and  investigat- 
ed. 


4.  No  member  of  the  department  shall,  in  the  station- 
house  or  elsewhere,  while  on  duty,  drink  any  kind  of  intox- 
icating liquor,  or,  except  in  the  immediate  performance  of  his 
duty,  enter  any  place  in  which  intoxicating  drinks  are  sold  or 
furnished.  No  intoxicating  drink  shall  be  introduced,  upon 
any  pretext,  into  the  stationhouses,  except  with  the  approval 
of  the  chief  of  police.  Smoking  shall  not  be  allowed  in  the 
station-houses,  except  in  apartments  designated  by  the  chief 
of  police,  nor  shall  police  officers  smoke  while  on  their  beats. 

5.  No  member  shall,  directly  or  indirectly,  accept  from 
any  person,  either  liable  to  be  arrested  or  to  complaint,  or  in 
custody,  or  after  he  has  been  discharged,  or  from  any  of  his 
friends,  any  gratuity,  reward  or  gift  whatever;  nor  from  any 
person,  money  or  other  compensation  for  services  rendered, 
or  damages  sustained  while  on  duty ; nor  any  extra  compen- 
sation whatsoever,  without  the  approval  of  ihe  town 
council. 

6.  Any  member  of  the  department,  for  intoxication, 
wilful  disobedience  of  orders,  indecent,  profane  or  harsh 
language,  disrespect  to  a superior,  unnecessary  violence  to 
any  prisoner  or  citizen,  neglect  to  pay  his  just  debts  for  rent 
or  necessaries,  or  any  breach  of  the  rules  and  orders,  shall  be 
subject  to  reprimand,  suspension,  deductions  from  pay,  or  to 
discharge,  according  to  the  nature  or  aggravation  of  his 
offence. 

7.  All  complaints  made  against  any  member  of  the  de- 
partment, except  those  made  by  a superior  officer,  shall  be 
reduced  to  writing,  with  specifications,  and  shall  be  signed  by 
the  party  making  the  complaint,  before  the  same  shall  be 
investigated ; and  any  officer,  whose  character  has  been  com- 
promised, may  have  an  inquiry  as  to  the  truth  of  any  charges 
against  him,  upon  the  permission  of  the  town  council.  For 
minor  offences,  the  measure  of  punishment  shall  be  deter- 
mined by  the  chief  of  police,  with  the  approval  of  the  town 
council. 

8.  Whenever  any  member  of  the  department  resigns  or  is 
discharged,  or  in  any  way  vacates  his  office  before  the  final 


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settlement  of  his  accounts,  he  shall  surrender  to  the  chief 
of  police  his  badge,  number,  book  of  rules  and  orders,  memo- 
randum books,  club,  police  buttons,  belt,  and  other  equip- 
ments. 

9.  Coolness  and  firmness  will  be  expected,  in  all  cases,  of 
every  officer ; and  in  times  of  extreme  peril,  the  police  will 
act  together,  and  protect  each  other  in  the  restoration  of 
peace ; whoever  shrinks  from  danger  or  responsibility  at  such 
a moment,  should  be  discharged  as  unworthy  of  a place  in  the 
service. 

10.  No  member  of  the  department  will  be  permitted  to 
apply  for  a warrant  for  an  assault  upon  himself,  to  make  a 
complaint  for  damages,  or  to  adjust  the  same,  without  the 
consent  of  the  chief  of  police. 

11.  No  associations  shall  be  formed  within  the  depart- 
ment by  members  thereof,  without  the  consent  of  the  town 
council. 

12.  No  member  of  the  department  shall  communicate  any 
information  respecting  orders  or  regulations,  or  any  other 
business  of  the  department  which  he  has  procured  in  its  ser- 
vice, except  by  special  permission  of  a superior  officer. 

13.  No  one  will  be  appointed  on,  or  discharged  from  the 
police  for  his  religious  or  political  opinions,  and  officers  will 
avoid  all  religious  and  political  discussions  in  the  station- 
houses,  and  shall  not  interfere,  or  make  use  of  their  office  in 
elections,  but  may  quietly  exercise  the  right  of  suffrage  as 
other  citizens. 

14.  Members  of  the  police  department  may  enter  the  shop 
of  any  pawnbroker,  or  dealer  in  junk  or  second-hand  articles, 
and  examine  their  books  and  the  property  therein,  and  if 
resisted  or  refused  admission  so  to  do,  the  case  shall  be  re- 
ported to  the  chief  of  police,  and  by  him  to  the  Town 
council,  and  if  the  circumstances  justify  it,  the  license  shall 
be  revoked. 

15.  The  police  badge  shall  be  worn  upon  the  left  breast 
and  upon  the  outside  of  the  outer  garment,  plainly  exposed  to 
view  at  all  times  when  on  duty  before  the  public,  unless  by 


Duty  of  police 
when  dis- 
charged from 
the  force. 


Coolness  and 
firmness  re- 
quired. 


Police  not  to 
make  com- 
plaints for 
assaults  upon 
themselves 
without  permis- 
sion of  chief. 

Not  to  form  as- 
sociation. 


Not  to  com- 
municate official 
information. 


To  avoid  politi- 
cal or  religious 
discussions  in 
station-houses, 
etc. 


May  enter  Junk- 
shops,  &c. 


Police  badge, 
where  to  be 
worn. 


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RUT,ES  AND  REGULATIONS  OF  THE 


Chief  of 
police  to  be 
responsible  for 
conduct  of  po- 
lice force. 

To  keep  roster 
of  police  force. 


To  keep  ac- 
count of 
expenses  of  de- 
partment. 


To  keep  books 
for  entering 
complaints 
against  the 
police,  and  for 
registering 
offences. 


May  suspend 
members  of  the 
force. 


To  keep  record 
of  certain 
places. 


permission  of  the  town  council  or  the  chief  of  police.  No 
umbrellas  are  permitted  while  on  duty,  but  an  india  rubber 
cap-cover  and  portable  cape  are  allowed  in  wet  weather. 

chief  of  police. 

16.  The  chief  of  police  shall  be  responsible  for  the  con- 
duct of  all  the  members  of  the  department,  and  shall  report' 
all  cases  of  neglect  of  duty  to  the  town  council. 

17.  He  shall  keep  a book,  alphabetically  arranged,  in 
which  shall  be  entered  the  name,  age,  birthplace,  date-of  ser- 
vice, district,  and  occasions  of  censure  or  punishment  of 
every  member  of  the  department,  as  also  of  extra  duty. 

18.  All  the  accounts  and  expenses  of  the  department  shall 
be  audited  by  the  committee  on  police,  and  entered  on  proper 
books,  to  be  kept  in  his  office  for  the  inspection  of  the  town 
council,  and  he  shall  see  that  the  utmost  economy  is  prac- 
ticed throughout  the  service. 

19.  He  shall  keep  a book,  in  which  complaints  may  be 
made  by  citizens  against  members  of  the  department,  and 
another,  in  which  violations  of  the  laws  and  ordinances, 
crimes,  misdemeanors,  articles  lost,  and  other  similar  matters 
shall  be  entered,  and  he  shall  cause  prompt  attention  to  be 
paid  to  such  complaints  or  information. 

20.  He  may  suspend  from  duty  for  not  longer  than  one 
week,  or  fine  any  member  of  the  department  the  amount  of 
one  week’s  pay,  for  cause,  and  may  grant  furloughs  of  not 
exceeding  one  week  to  any  member,  making  report  thereof 
to  the  town  council  for  approval. 

21.  He  shall  keep  a record  of  all  intelligence  offices,  junk- 
shops  and  dealers  in  second-hand  articles,  pawnbrokers,  thea- 
tres, billiard  rooms,  bagatelle  rooms,  bowling  saloons,  and 
other  places  of  amusement,  and  see  that  the  laws,  ordinances 
and  rules  for  their  government  are  observed ; also  of  all  sus- 
pected gambling-houses,  drinking  saloons,  and  houses  of  ill- 
repute,  and  of  all  convicted  persons  who  may  become  dan- 
gerous to  the  community. 


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209 


22.  He  shall  receive  and  keep  all  property  coming  into  the 
possession  of  officers  of  the  stations,  by  virtue  of  their  office ; 
mark  and  keep  together,  and  separate  the  property  taken 
from  each  person,  and  keep  a record  of  the  same ; and  prop- 
erty holden  for  evidence  shall  be  delivered  by  order  of  court, 
and  all  other  property  holden  shall,  as  soon  as  possible,  be 
delivered  to  the  lawful  owner,  and  a receipt  taken  therefor; 
and  all  property  remaining  at  the  close  of  each  quarter  shall 
be  delivered  or  reported  to  the  town  council. 

patroemen. 

23.  The  districts  will  be  divided  into  beats,  and  the  rounds 
of  the  regular  service  will  be  from  time  to  time  specified ; but 
it  is  clearly  to  be  understood,  that  when  occasion  requires, 
officers  are  liable  to  be  called  into  service  for  any  portion  of 
the  day,  if  necessary.  The  ordinary  sphere  of  their  duty  is 
the  town  of  East  Providence;  but  as  officers  clothed  with 
the  criminal  powers  of  constables,  they  may  be  required  to 
go  into  any  other  part  of  the  state  to  arrest  criminals,  or  for 
other  duties. 

24.  No  compensation  will  be  allowed  beyond  their  pay, 
except  upon  such  bills  as  are  approved  by  the  town  council. 

25.  The  patrolman  will  hold  himself  in  readiness,  at  all 
times,  to  answer  the  calls  and  to  obey  the  orders  of  his  supe- 
rior officers.  He  shall  treat  them  with  respect,  and  in  his  de- 
meanor to  his  associates  on  the  force,  be  courteous  and  con- 
siderate, guarding  himself  against  envy,  jealousy,  or  other 
unfriendly  feeling,  and  refraining  from  all  communications 
to  their  discredit,  except  to  his  superior  officers,  whom  it  is 
his  duty  to  inform  of  every  neglect  or  disobedience  of  orders 
that  may  come  to  his  knowledge.  He  shall  conform  to  the 
rules  and  regulations  of  the  department,  observe  the  laws  and 
ordinances,  and  render  his  services  to  the  town  with  zeal, 
courage,  discretion  and  fidelity.  Any  violation  of  the  rules 
of  the  department  will  be  punished  by  reprimand,  suspension, 
deductions  from  pay,  or  discharge. 

26.  He  shall  note  all  street  and  sidewalk  obstructions,  and 


To  keep  record 
of  property 
taken  by 
officers. 


Duties  of  patrol- 
men. 


Their  compen- 
sation. 


To  obey  orders 
and  conform  to 
rules  of  the  de- 
partment. 


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RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  OE  THE 


To  note 
nuisances  and 
obstructions,  &c 
and  to  report 
the  same. 


To  examine 
doors,  windows, 
&c,  vacant 
houses,  &c. 


To  request  per- 
sons obstruct- 
ing sidewalks 
to  move  on. 


defects  therein  from  which  accidents  may  occur,  removing 
them  when  practicable ; all  places  for  which  temporary  per- 
mits are  granted  for  buildings,  or  when  openings  or  excava- 
tions are  being  made,  and  not  suffer  them  to  be  continued 
without  examining  the  permits  authorizing  the  same,  and 
shall  cause  suitable  accommodations  to  be  provided  for  the 
public  travel ; all  coal-holes  left  exposed  or  insecure ; all 
street  lamps  not  lighted  at  proper  times,  or  too  early  extin- 
guished, when  not  clean  or  not  giving  sufficient  light;  all 
buildings  erected  or  being  erected  contrary  to  law,  or  any 
building  defectively  built  or  become  unsafe,  all  places  where 
noisome,  dangerous,  or  unwholesome  trade  is  carried  on ; and 
all  nuisances  and  other  matters  relating  to  the  safety  and 
convenience  of  the  public  or  to  the  interests  of  the  town, 
which  may  exist  or  occur  on  his  beat,  and  shall  make  report 
thereof  without  delay  to  the  chief  of  police. 

27.  He  shall  examine,  in  the  night-time,  all  doors,  gates 
and  windows  of  dwellings  and  stores,  to  see  that  they  are 
properly  secured,  and  if  not,  give  notice  to  the  inmates,  if 
any,  and  if  not,  make  the  same  fast,  and  notify  the  owner  in 
the  morning.  He  must  watch  vacant  houses  to  prevent  dep- 
redations ; be  vigilant  to  prevent  fire ; call  the  attention  of 
abutters  to  the  state  of  their  sidewalks  when  by  snow,  ice  or 
other  cause  they  are  rendered  dangerous,  or  when  obstructed 
by  goods  or  signs  extending  more  than  six  inches  over  the 
same,  or  other  encumbrance ; take  note  of  all  ashes,  garbage, 
dead  animals,  and  other  nuisance  thrown  into  the  street,  and 
where  the  street  is  used  for  washing  carriages  or  horses,  and 
improperly  obstructed  thereby.  -And  where  the  laws  and 
ordinances,  orders,  rules  and  regulations  for  the  government 
of  such  cases,  upon  notice  given  are  not  forthwith  obeyed, 
the  officer  shall  do  what  he  can  himself  to  make  the  way  safe 
and  convenient,  ascertain  the  names  of  the  parties  offending, 
and  report  the  same  for  complaint  and  prosecution. 

28.  When  any  person  remains  upon  any  one  part  of  the 
sidewalk,  so  as  to  obstruct  the  way,  the  officer  shall  court- 
eously recpiest  him  to  move  on;  and  if  any  such  person  un- 


TOWN  COUNCIL/  OF  FAST  PROVIDENCE). 


2 I I 


reasonably  persists  in  remaining  so  as  to  incommode  other 
passengers,  the  officer  shall  endeavor  to  ascertain  the  name  of 
such  person,  and  report  the  same  for  prosecution,  or  arrest 
the  offender  at  his  discretion. 

29.  When  any  person  begs  in  the  streets,  or  goes  from 
door  to  door  soliciting  alms,  the  officer  shall  inquire  the  name 
and  abode  of  such  person,  and  note  the  same  for  record,  and 
direct  such  person,  if  in  distress,  to  the  overseer  of  the  poor, 
or  to  any  charitable  association  in  his  knowledge  affording 
relief  in  such  cases,  or  arrest  and  convey  such  person  to  the 
station  if  he  deem  it  expedient. 

30.  He  shall  note  all  cases  of  fast  driving,  cruelty  to 
animals,  horses  or  vehicles  going  upon  the  sidewalk,  or  taking 
the  wrong  side  in  passing  or  meeting,  or  where  rail  cars  or 
omnibuses  stop  opposite  the  intersection  of  streets,  or  on 
crossings,  or  are  not  made  to  conform  to  the  lawful  pro- 
visions made  for  their  regulation. 

31.  When  any  way  becomes  blocked,  he  shall  use  his  best 
efforts  to  aid  the  drivers  in  disentangling  the  same ; and 
where  the  stream  of  travel  is  continuous,  open  the  way  for 
foot  travelers  wishing  to  cross,  attending  women,  children 
and  aged  persons,  who  would  be  otherwise  exposed  to 
danger. 

32.  When  a disturbance  occurs,  he  shall  instantly  repair 
to  the  spot  and  use  his  best  efforts  to  restore  quiet.  If  any 
person  has  committed  a felonious  assault  or  crime,  or  by  loud 
outcries  or  otherwise  persists  in  disturbing  the  peace,  any  one 
so  offending  shall  be  taken  into  custody  and  conveyed  to  the 
station-house  to  await  the  order  of  the  chief  of  police.  If  he 
is  opposed  in  the  performance  of  his  duty,  he  shall  give  such 
notice  as  circumstances  may  warrant  and  the  policemen  who 
hear  it  shall  answer  the  same  by  forthwith  proceeding  to 
render  him  assistance. 

33.  He  shall  serve  all  warrants  of  arrest  promptly,  and 
shall  deliver  the  person  arrested  over  to  the  officer  in  charge 
of  the  station,  and  make  proper  return  thereof  on  his  war- 
rant. He  may  also  arrest  without  a warrant  any  person 


His  duty  as  to 
street  beggars. 


To  note 
violations  of 
ordinances  &c. 


His  duty  when 
streets  are 
blocked. 


To  arrest 
persons  commit' 
ting  crimes. 


To  serve  war- 
rants and  arrest 
suspected  per- 
sons. 


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RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  OE  THE 


To  require 
accuser  to  go 
with  accused  to 
station;  when. 


To  make  arrests 
quietly  and 
securely. 


To  preserve  all 
property  taken 
by  him  in  the 
line  of  duty. 


Not  to  interfere 
in  civil  cases. 


To  watch  dis- 
orderly houses. 


To  report  on 
licensed  places. 


To  go  to  fires, 
&c. 


reasonably  suspected  of  having  committed  a felony,  or  seen 
committing  a breach  of  the  peace,  or  being  unduly  armed 
with  a dangerous  weapon,  and  also  night-walkers. 

34.  When  any  party  charges  another  with  crime,  and  in- 
sists that  the  party  so  charged  shall  be  taken  into  custody,  the 
officer  shall  require  the  accuser,  if  unknown  to  him,  or  if 
there  is  any  other  sufficient  reason  for  it,  to  go  with  the  ac 
cused  to  the  police  station. 

35.  He  shall  make  all  arrests  in  as  easy  and  quiet  a 
manner  as  possible,  only  using  sufficient  force  to  secure  the 
prisoner  and  no  more,  and  in  no  instance  shall  he  strike  a 
prisoner,  except  in  self-defence.  When  in  custody  he  shall 
see  that  the  prisoner  is  properly  secured  and  cared  for  until 
removed  from  his  custody  according  to  law,  and  any  un- 
necessary deprivations  or  abuse  to  a prisoner  while  in 
custody  will  be  met  with  reproof  and  punishment. 

36.  He  shall  carefully  preserve  all  property  coming  into 
his  possession  in  his  official  capacity,  and  mark  and  place  the 
same  in  the  hands  of  the  chief  of  police,  and  whatsoever  is 
taken  from  each  person  while  in  his  custody  shall  be  kept 
together  and  separate  from  his  other  property. 

37.  As  by  virtue  of  his  appointment  he  can  act  officially 
in  criminal  matters  only,  he  will  not  render  assistance' in  any 
civil  case  whatever,  except  to  prevent  a breach  of  the  peace 
or  to  suppress  a disturbance  actually  commenced. 

38.  He  shall  carefully  watch  all  disorderly  houses,  gam- 
bling houses  and  houses  of  ill-fame  within  his  post,  and  ob- 
serve by  whom  they  are  frequented,  and  report  his  observa- 
tions to  his  commanding  officer. 

39.  He  shall  make  a monthly  report  of  the  manner  in 
which  all  licensed  places  are  conducted,  with  all  violations 
of  the  laws,  on  his  beat,  in  a book  kept  for  this  purpose, 
stating  whether  the  general  character  of  the  place  is  good 
or  otherwise.  This  record  shall  be  placed  before  the  council 
with  any  application  for  a renewal  of  his  license. 

40.  At  an  alarm  of  fire,  the  officers  shall  quickly  repair  to 
the  fire,  to  render  such  assistance  as  practicable  in  securing 


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and  protecting  lives  and  property,  under  the  direction  of  the 
fire  wardens. 

41.  Every  police  officer  shall  keep  a private  record  of  his  record?13 
work,  with  day  and  date,  and  he  shall  enter  therein  all  mat- 
ters of  any  importance  in  which  he  is  engaged  in  his  official 
capacity,  whether  at  court,  on  his  beat,  or  elsewhere,  and  also 

any  other  matter  of  importance  that  comes  to  his  knowledge 
connected  with  the  police  of  the  town ; and  when  his  book  is 
full,  it  shall  be  carefully  preserved  for  future  use  or  refer- 
ence. 

42.  He  shall,  each  day,  at  such  time  as  shall  be  appointed,  report^6 
make  a report  of  all  that  he  has  done,  or  which  has  come  to 

his  knowledge,  during  the  previous  twenty-four  hours,  or 
since  his  last  report,  to  his  sergeant  or  chief ; and  shall  ex- 
hibit his  book  if  requested. 


private 


daily 


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